An interesting account of how Netflix developed from a mail order DVD company to a world dominating streaming service who now makes shows and films too. It credits its success on employing only the best who it rewards with generous pay. Employees are given freedom and any failures are discussed so improvements can be made. A company operating in a different way- but it works.
“A great book that should be read by everyone who has a job as it is a goldmine of information on what is possible.”
I have enjoyed reading this book and have to confess that I have done so with one eye closed because I was scared at the prospect of discovering yet more practices that are absent from so many other companies.
I come from a percentage pay-rise pool environment where being caught talking to recruiters to see what a body is worth was almost a sackable offence and discussing ones salary was a sackable offence. Reading what goes on at Netflix shows that an environment can exist where that does not happen and an employee is encouraged to find out what they are worth out in the marketplace and inside the company.
I spent most of my time reading and nodding at all the things that could be encouraged in what passes for a conventional workplace but are not. Of course, most of their methodology would not be easy to implement perhaps even impossible in many workplaces but, unfortunately, in decades of experience I have yet to find one which is happy to implement anything radical.
This is a great book and should be read by any and everyone as it is a goldmine of information for those who have the wit and the wisdom to see what freedom of thought and action can do to improve their company's environment.
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Talk about turn organisational culture on its head. How it works, why it works. Building in cultural and international differences. Why Netflix works. So different to organisations norms but brilliant. Read it and learn.
