A Manager Can't Failing It as Certainly as Any Employee

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This keeper test may sound a bit darwinian. No one wants to hear a manager say, i wouldn't fit to keep you. But y believe it's more compassionate to ask this question repeatedly. You have to be thoughtful about who fits in and who clashes with their co workers. Without a clear sense of how staff should work together, it's all too easy for managers to narrow their focus on individual players....

As Reed Hastings steps down from his co-CEO role at Netflix, we return to the leadership lessons he shared in his original Masters of Scale episode. This episode is all about how you need a strong culture to build a company that will scale beyond the early start-up days. And strong company cultures only emerge when every employee feels they own the culture from day 1. Here's how Reed Hastings and his team at Netflix did it – and made their culture deck famous in the process. Cameo appearances: Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Aneel Bhusri (Workday), Margaret Heffernan (entrepreneur), Tristan Walker (Walker & Co.), Mariam Naficy (Minted).

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