What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
I spoke to an ex Shopify employee today. He told me about what employees call a “Toby Tornado”. It made me appreciate Toby Lutke (CEO) even more.
It goes like this: Toby follows random Slack channels across the company. He would sometimes drop a message in one of them and tell everyone that the project they’re collaborating on is canceled. Why? He... See more
The first thing to understand is that just because somebody interviewed well and reference-checked great, that does not mean she will perform superbly in your company. There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where…
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
More significant (and often more difficult) are your true opinions about an idea, your uncertainties, and your private opinions about your own (or others’) failures and sacred cows. If someone expresses distaste or interest in something, ask for the source of this opinion. If someone asks you, answer honestly.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Livingston: What's the most important part of your culture? Newmark: The culture of trust. The moral compass. Livingston: And you make sure, when you hire someone, that they have one? Newmark: The other people on my team do, yes. Since I've had such bad luck in interviewing—that's because I'm not suited to it—I have no role in the hiring whatsoever
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