{"id":1085,"date":"2014-01-18T18:07:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T07:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2014-01-18T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T07:46:57","slug":"netflix-culture-freedom-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Culture: Freedom &#038; Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great HBR article on\u00a0\u00a0HR as it should be&#8230; agreed with nearly every point, save the brutal culling of people if their jobs became superfluous.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The best thing you can do for employees is hire only \u201cA\u201d players to work alongside them. Excellent colleagues trump everything else.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>If we wanted only \u201cA\u201d players on our team, we had to be willing to let go of people whose skills no longer fit, no matter how valuable their contributions had once been. Out of fairness to such people\u2014and, frankly, to help us overcome our discomfort with discharging them\u2014we learned to offer rich severance packages.<\/li>\n<li>Hire, Reward, and Tolerate Only Fully Formed Adults and then rely on common sense instead of HR policies<\/li>\n<li>Salaried employees were told to take whatever time they felt was appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>Expenses policy:\u00a0\u201cAct in Netflix\u2019s best interests.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>asked managers and employees to have conversations about performance as an organic part of their work<\/li>\n<li>Managers Own the Job of Creating Great Teams<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0let employees choose how much (if any) of their compensation would be in the form of equity<\/li>\n<li>Leaders Own the Job of Creating the Company Culture<\/li>\n<li>Good Talent Managers Think Like Businesspeople and Innovators First, and Like HR People Last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/01\/how-netflix-reinvented-hr\/ar\/1\">http:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/01\/how-netflix-reinvented-hr\/ar\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PDF of article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/How-Netflix-Reinvented-HR-Harvard-Business-Review.pdf\">How Netflix Reinvented HR &#8211; Harvard Business Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slideshare:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/reed2001\/culture-1798664\">http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/reed2001\/culture-1798664<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PDF version of deck:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/netflix_culture.pdf\">netflix_culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/netflix-culture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1087\" alt=\"netflix culture\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/netflix-culture.png\" width=\"648\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/netflix-culture.png 648w, https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/netflix-culture-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great HBR article on\u00a0\u00a0HR as it should be&#8230; agreed with nearly every point, save the brutal culling of people if their jobs became superfluous. The best thing you can do for employees is hire only \u201cA\u201d players to work alongside them. Excellent colleagues trump everything else. If we wanted only \u201cA\u201d players on our team, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Netflix Culture: Freedom &#038; Responsibility<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-management-and-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}