5. Tribes of Culture
• Change Your
Culture
• You Can’t
Change Culture
• The Deal with it
Culture
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6. Change Your Culture Tribe
• Vision Goals and Purpose
• Remove bureaucracy
• Aligning incentives process
and policy
• Utilize and motivate talent
and potential
• Increase trust
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8. 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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9. Deal With It Tribe
• Don’t change corporate
culture: use it
• Figure out what it is and
work with it
• Nurture it
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10. Deal With It Tribe
Simon Sinek
“Start With Why”
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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Etsy Way
• Code as craft
• Enable people to make a
living making things
• Blameless culture
• Tools to reinforce your
culture
• Benefit Corporation
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24. Other Stuff
• Monitorama
• Docker
• AntiFragile
• Promise Theory
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25. People to Seek Out
• Dave Zwieback (mindweather) on Twitter
• John Allspaw (allspaw) on Twitter
• Mark Imbriaco (markimbriaco) on Twitter
• Mathias Meyer (roidrage) on Twitter
• John E. Vincent (lusis) on Twitter
• James Urquhart (jamesurquhart) on Twitter
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