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DOD Austin - State of the Union 2013
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WHO AM I (@botchagalupe)
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CAMS
•Culture
•Automation
•Measurement
•Sharing
CAMS
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Culture
Culture Eats
Strategy
(Drucker)
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Tribes of Culture
• Change Your
Culture
• You Can’t
Change Culture
• The Nurture it
Culture
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ChangeYour Culture Tribe
• A Command and Control
• Culture Coaches
• Slogan Based
• Incentive Alignment
• Process and policy
• Utilize and motivate talent
and potential
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Culture
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You Can’t Change Culture Tribe
Company cultures are like
country cultures. Never try
to change one. Try, instead,
to work with what you've
got.
(Famous Drucker Mis-Quote)
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Nurture It Tribe
• Don’t change corporate
culture: use it
• Figure out what it is and
work with it
• Nurture it
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Nurture It Tribe
Simon Sinek
“Start With Why”
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Deming Fu
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Greatest “Why” Story Ever Told
“Culture isn’t just
one aspect of the
game — it is the
game.”
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Deal With It Tribes
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High Performance Culture
• They don’t apologize for being
tough
• They hire smart people who need
to make hard decisions
• Everyone is expected to take risks
and be an impact player
• Consistent contributor and
innovator
• Increase trust promote freedom
• Adequate performance gets a
generous severance package
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The Github Revolution
• Culture of collaboration
• People who like to share things
• Adopting automation as a culture
• Propagate culture
• no managers at github... everyone
is a manager
• The structure of Github is
unstructure
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The Etsy Way
• Code as craft (artisan)
• Enable people to make a
living making things
• Blameless culture
• Tools to reinforce your
culture
• Benefit Corporation
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