28: No Rules Rules
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Dima and Slava have read the "No Rules Rules" – a book about Netflix's culture of innovation – and now they discuss how and if it can be used to transplant that culture into another organization.
- No Rules Rules. Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- Biweeklycast #16: Culture Map
- All of Biweekly bookclub episodes
- Increasing talent density is a very sound idea
- Miracle – a 2004 movie about coach Herb Brooks who brought US ice hockey team to winning the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Another name for "constructive" feedback: "developmental"
- AAAA model of providing feedback
- Aim to assist
- Actionable
- Appreciate
- Accept or discard
- Why so much attention to no policy on vacation and no specific policy on expenses?
- Delegation of decisions to informed captains
- Does paying at the top of personal market only really work for "stable" markets?
- It is not all that straightforward with 10x developers
- Transparency can be a powerful tool for building a company culture
- Everything is a tradeoff. Including the keeper test
- Netflix essentially replaced very specific braindead rules with more generic rules that require thinking
- Slava loved the idea of live feedback
- Different people, for instance Dima and Slava, have different ideas about what 360 feedback is. Check Wikipedia
- Is it a book about managerial culture rather than a company culture?
- What are the tools to lead with context?
- Points
