I think we all have friends who for the past several years thought that social media was for the unemployed, stay-at-home moms (and dads), Gen X’ers and parents who needed to monitor their teenagers. It took a while before they realized that the web traffic from one cubicle to the next was not on the [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions: Are You Applying Them To Your Professional Development?
Posted in Career Management, Corporate Culture, Organizational Priorities, Self Development, tagged Career Management, Corporate Culture, Professional Development, Resolutions, Self Development on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The New Year generally starts with a tradition of resolutions and yet most of the time, those resolutions center around our personal lives and goals. I think there’s great value in introspection as it can help to shape successful changes for the future. In the vein of applying resolutions to our professional lives, I ran [...]
Is Leadership A Requirement In The New Normal??
Posted in Business, Corporate Culture, Leadership, tagged Business, Corporate Culture, Corporate Values, Leadership on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Looking back at the last eighteen months, the public has had an in-depth look at the quality of leadership in many companies. What we’ve learned is that companies can be easily derailed by the wrong management team, unclear values, etc. Looking forward, it seems as if the tide is turning in terms of leadership and [...]
Netflix Culture: Transparent, High Performing and Accountable, Part 2
Posted in Business, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Management, Self Development, tagged Business, Corporate Culture, Culture, Leadership, Management, Netflix, Professional Development on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In part one of this series, I talked about some key points in Netflix’s corporate culture that help them build a transparent, high performing and accountable culture. The corporate results are clear, they have enjoyed consistent revenue growth, a 26% increase in subscribers (Q2 09 vs. Q2 08) and a 21% growth in revenue (Q2 [...]
Netflix Culture: Transparent, High Performing And Accountable, Part 1
Posted in Business, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Management, tagged Business, Corporate Culture, Culture, Leadership, Management, Netflix on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After having reviewed the internal policy on corporate culture by Netflix, it makes me want to subscribe—and work there–just to be affiliated with something unique. If they are everything they say they are, they have created a working culture that is transparent, values its values as well as a hard working, team-oriented, “no jerks allowed” [...]
