Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

by Patty McCord

Rather than paying at some percentile of top of market, consider paying top of market, if not for all roles, then for those that are most important to your growth.

If you can’t find good, solid data showing that the process is contributing to some important business metric, then I strongly advise you to lobby for doing away with it.

“You want to be a lifelong learner; you want to always be acquiring new skills and having new experiences, and that doesn’t have to be at the same company. The fact is that sometimes you’re hired by a company to do something, and then you do it and it’s done.

There is no question that the discipline of proactively letting people go was one of the hardest, probably the single hardest, component of the Netflix culture for managers to become comfortable with.

Netflix it wasn’t enough to be smart; you had to get a lot done.

People deserve to know the truth of their prospects, in real time.

“You can’t do it all at once; you have to pick where you want to start, prioritizing just as you do with the rest of the business.