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Ive used this as a reference and passed it around my manager leaning engineering circles. Its really good as a basis for a conversation. The major takeaways for
by thinkingkong 7y ago
Ive used this as a reference and passed it around my manager leaning engineering circles. Its really good as a basis for a conversation. The major takeaways for me are
1. Culture has to be an explicit decision
2. Changing culture is incredibly difficult. Emphasis on incredibly.
Chances are you wont be able to build a stars culture, but lots of companies use that as their implied cultural northstar and fail at it.
- iteriteratedone 7y agoIts not about building a culture to grow stars but to grow a place stars want to be. Its mostly money and clarity , no politics. I look at valve and think thats a good place to be an engineer. But they dont let any one in. Stars arent born or created. They are willed by the individual. You put george washington carver in a field of peanuts he becomes a chemist. You put 40% of college students in fundies 1 and they drop out by the third week.
- zwaps 7y agoThis also relates to organizational fit. The so called "contigency theory" has long said that the optimal organization depends on context. Sadly, this context was usually defined to be outside of the firm. The area of "internal context" is a current area of research. The SPEC project has been very useful in this regard.