Episode · This Week in Startups · 2021-05-25
Jason Calacanis, David Hassell & Amanda Greenberg: books mentioned on This Week in Startups
Culture | Scaling Your Startup S2 E7: 15five's David Hassell & Balloon's Amanda Greenberg | E1221
Two CEOs join to talk about intentionally creating and maintaining a workplace culture that delivers high performance. First, 15five's David Hassel shares how to build culture at scale (1:49), then Balloon's Amanda Greenberg shares a process to help leaders navigate hybrid work (26:00).
David Hassell discussed Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott. Jason Calacanis discussed No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings and others and Unique ability by Catherine Nomura and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Radical Candor
Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott is a management guide focused on building trust, cultivating caring relationships, and delivering effective feedback in the workplace.
Discussed“if you've studied radical candor kim scott is the author of that talks about how most people skew to either what she calls obnoxious aggression which is candor but without care for the person or ruinous empathy which is care for the person but not candor”
Where to get it
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer details the radical management philosophy and unconventional corporate culture behind Netflix.
Discussed“uh then you also look at like what you know reid hastings in his book uh no rules rules just talked about where where he said look um a top one percent engineer is going to perform like 10 mediocre engineers so we just pay top of the range”
Where to get it
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Unique ability
Discussed“and it's one of these things where um i came across this book called unique ability by strategic coach i don't know 15 20 years ago and you know their thesis was you know we grow up in a society where we go to school and we're constantly told to work on our weaknesses”
Where to get it
