This document discusses innovation and culture at a company. It describes how the company disrupted traditional HR practices by getting rid of performance reviews, approvals for travel and time off, and instead focused on trusting employees and helping them reach their potential. This cultural shift led to disruption in the company's engineering, products, and business. The culture became a key differentiator and inspired many employees to start their own companies. The document also discusses the origins of the company's cultural philosophy which combines imagination, creative tension, and action. It states this culture will help disruptive companies and benefit India.

1. RE-IMAGINING PEOPLE AND CULTURE

2. What is innovation?

3. The ability to see things beyond
the paradigm of success and failure
and relating progress to a larger
cause is innovation

4. An act of ordinary people that
causes extraordinary
disruption in any field is
innovation

5. The grass-root movement that
energize the entire group to
move beyond status-quo and
do things that matter and have
higher impact is innovation

6. But innovation can't be done
in isolation

7. Innovation is not necessarily
doing something new

8. Innovation is
> an ability to turn problems into
opportunity
>to create an environment of free thinking
that thrives on great ideas
> to bring people out of their shells and set
them free to dream and pursue it

9. But we did not know this when we
started 8 years ago

10. When we started

11. People advised against it
We went Global anyway

12. People said start at west
We made products in India

13. We kept disrupting and
pushing the envelope

14. We scaled massively

15. Grew from a handful to
>1000

16. And suddenly

17. People
Productivity

18. People
Productivity

19. We Stopped Growing

21. Entrepreneurship
Risk Taking
Thinking Big
Passion

22. Wall vs Reality

23. Threw out ‘archaic’ thinking

24. 1) Don’t manage: Just
focus on growing people

25. Threw out Performance
management system

26. Started paying 100% bonus

27. Stopped ranking and
rating people

28. 2) 1% vs. 99%

29. Travel Policy: Travel if it
were your own money

30. Reimbursement policy:
No pre and post approvals

31. Leaves: No pre and post
approvals till 6 days

32. 3) Realize your
people are great,
learn to trust them

33. Trust that people inside
are better than people
outside
“Live your Potential”

34. No approvals required

35. 30% of our positions are
filled through “Live Your
Potential”

36. 20% InMobians have
applied for “Live Your
Potential”

37. People like to stretch
“Bridge Assignments”

38. 15% InMobians have
taken bridge assignments

39. Bet @ 60%
Experience
Capability
Over 90% Failure
Leap of faith
90% Success

40. Learn what you what to
learn

41. 4) Beyond employee
and work: Build lasting
relationships

42. InMobi family is not just
1000 but >3000

43. Summer Camps for kids at
InMobi office

44. Cats and Dogs

45. Kids @ office

46. Promote Entrepreneurship

47. SlideRule Oliveboard Globevestor PickYourTrail
Housify Kritter Allchemist Fairket
English Dost Galleri5 Moneysights Mobobeat
Credibase Shifter.in Do Select
And many more …
InMobi Mafia: 40+ Startups

48. Boomerang: We welcome
our people back with
open arms

49. We love failed
entrepreneurs

50. 5) Workspace

51. Small is big

52. Innovative workspace with no cabins

53. Attracting great talent

56. Disruption in HR and Culture
led to disruption at multiple
levels

57. Hadoop contribution
Falcon, Conduit, Lens,
Kinobi, Cito engine
Disruption in Engineering / Technology

58. A Revolutionary
Discovery
Platform
from InMobi
Disruption in Product

59. Our Culture became
Biggest Differentiator

60. It started to make
ripples

61. Culture was
always there.
But now we’re
taking it to the
next orbit..

62. Originates from the Turkish
word Hayal which means
Imagination
Originates from the Sanskrit
word Awirodhin which means not
being out of harmony with
(allowing for creative tension)
Originates from Latin
work Opus which means
Action
Convergence of three words that form the foundation of our culture

63. Power of being Open

64. YaWiO went open source

65. InMobi runs on YaWiO

66. Disruptive companies will
run on YaWiO

67. India needs YaWiO