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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
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