How to Fire People
Without Fail
English - March 18, 2019 10:00 - 37 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsCareers Business Society & Culture entrepreneur interview entrepreneurship business startups technology productivity art culture the 4-hour workweek Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In 1998, Patty McCord joined a new company called Netflix. Her title was chief talent officer. And over the next ten years as Netflix grew (and grew), she and CEO Reed Hastings built a new kind of workplace. They threw out all the usual rules -- no more expense authorization forms or vacation requests -- and focused on creating a culture of excellence. But that culture of excellence didn’t come only through hiring the right people. Patty had to get good at firing, too.
See the original Netflix culture deck here: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
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In 1998, Patty McCord joined a new company called Netflix. Her title was chief talent officer. And over the next ten years as Netflix grew (and grew), she and CEO Reed Hastings built a new kind of workplace. They threw out all the usual rules -- no more expense authorization forms or vacation requests -- and focused on creating a culture of excellence. But that culture of excellence didn’t come only through hiring the right people. Patty had to get good at firing, too.
See the original Netflix culture deck here: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
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