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Company Culture Is the Last 50 Days
“Put simply,” he wrote in High Output Management, culture is “a set of values and beliefs, as well as familiarity with the way things are done and should be done in a company. The point is that a strong and positive corporate culture is absolutely essential.”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
There’s often an initial apprehension that comes from welcoming a lot of new hires into the fold. But there’s also something deeper. What these comments get at is the sense that there’s a certain “unscalable” spirit from a team’s earlier, scrappier days — and that each new addition represents a slow chipping away at the je ne sais quoi that forged ... See more
First Round Capital • How Gusto Built Scalable Hiring Practices Rooted in Tradition
You don’t create a culture
Jason Fried • Rework
The thing that will endure for 100 years, the way it has for most 100 year companies, is the culture. The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.