Marc Hedlund
Twitter’s very public management choices—rewarding sleeping in the office and firing people who mock the boss, for instance—are creating a new culture there. I’m always reminded of Jocelyn Goldfein’s excellent article about this: https://jocelyngoldfein.com/culture-is-the-behavior-you-reward-and-punish-7e8e75c6543e #management #twitter #culture
Culture is the Behavior You Reward and Punish - jocelyngoldfein

At the outset of 2008, VMware was flying high. We were a Silicon Valley rocket ship; we’d doubled revenue and headcount for four years in a row. We were an upstart disrupting the datacenter, we were…

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Show threadMarc HedlundNov 23, 2022
Brought to mind this morning by this incredible item: https://twitter.com/hayskali/status/1595451062382493696
Kali Hays on Twitter

“Elon Musk apparently hired one of the men who faked being fired engineers a few weeks ago and falsely claimed they were to reporters. They walked out of Twitter HQ holding boxes saying their names were Rahul Ligma, Daniel Johnson. (Seriously, one listed as staffer now). Story tk”

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Show threadCoty RosenblathNov 23, 2022
@marcprecipice I hate every bit of it so much. I cannot get over the people who should otherwise be completely disinterested who are so eager to vicariously bootlick. Some people in that thread for example.
Show threadSteve BennettNov 23, 2022

@marcprecipice All these decisions are very deliberate in setting the tone for the company moving forward.

What’s so jarring is that it seems totally at odds with the culture that seemingly existed at Twitter and therefore hit everyone hard as a shock.

We must also consider the wider environment which this takes place. Orgs are laying off people all over the place and so there’s less power held by employees at these companies (fewer alternative employment opportunities).

Show threadMarc HedlundNov 23, 2022
@steveb for sure.
Show threadpiccolboNov 23, 2022
@steveb @marcprecipice
Imagine if he's successful, if it ends a Tesla instead of a boring company. We'll be dealing with the Musk way management book. Better be self employed.
Show thread***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Nov 24, 2022

@marcprecipice

From Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker, School Culture Rewired, ch. 3 (2015).

https://wist.info/other/33021/

And, of course, it's worse when the leader is the the one pushing the behavior downwards.

WIST Quotations - ~Other | Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker, School Culture Rewired, ch. 3 (2015)

The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate. Often misattributed as "Gruenter and Whitaker".

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