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E989: The Next Unicorns: Culture Amp CEO & Co-founder Didier Elzinga is building an employee analytics platform that keeps workers satisfied & motivated, shares insights on the changing role of culture, what modern employees value & maintaining culture while scaling – E7 of 10-ep miniseries

Oct 16, 2019

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How Culture AMP Founded in 2011

2min

The Importance of Having Skills

2min

The Pain and Suffering of Managing Culture and Reviews

2min

How to Redesign Your Process

2min

The Importance of Weekly One on One Feedback

2min

How to Hire Great People on LinkedIn

3min

The Importance of Culture in Silicon Valley

3min

The Power of Good Culture

2min

10.

The Five O'Clock Test: How Engaged Are You?

2min

11.

The Importance of Intangible Work

2min

12.

The Generational Differences Between Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials and Gen Z

2min

13.

The Problem With Generational Effects in Work

2min

14.

The Importance of Insurance for Startups

2min

15.

The Future of Work Is the Anti-Gig Economy

3min

16.

Why You Have to Pay Commission to Sales People

2min

17.

The Importance of Transparency in Sales

2min

18.

How Compensation Worked in the NBA

2min

19.

The Benefits of Part-Time Work

3min

20.

How to Engage With NetSuite

2min

21.

NetSuite: The Seven Key Strategies to Grow Your Profits

1min

22.

How to Collect Data to Understand Your Culture and Your People

2min

23.

How to Measure Engagement and Connect With Leaders

2min

24.

How to Preserve Confidential Feedback From Rogue Employees

2min

25.

The Importance of Analytical Feedback

2min

26.

The Importance of Sharing Manager Ratings

2min

27.

How Pied Piper's Benchmarks Influence Engagement

2min

28.

The Importance of Valuing Your People

2min

29.

The Gottman Ratio

2min

30.

How to Be a Better Speaker on the Fly

2min

31.

How to Balance Entitlement and Kid Gloves With Old School Hardcore

2min

32.

The Importance of Culture First

2min

33.

The Importance of Winning

2min

34.

The Importance of Investing in Your People

2min

35.

The Power of Anti-Fragile

2min

36.

How to Give a Delicious Sandwich

2min

37.

How to Run a 400 Person Company

2min

38.

The Importance of Vulnerability in Startups

2min

39.

The Relationship Between Silicon Valley and San Francisco

2min

40.

The Importance of Culture Amp

3min

0:52 Jason intros Culture Amp's Didier Elzinga
2:44 How Didier's prior career in Visual Effects led him to start Culture Amp
8:24 Issues with yearly performance evaluations
14:15 Did Silicon Valley take culture too far?
17:35 What defines good culture?
24:24 Generational differences in workplace culture
28:30 How should companies view the gig economy in terms of culture and compensation?
37:12 How should compensation work in this era?
43:20 Didier demos Culture Amp
58:45 Jason gives Sir Charles positive/negative feedback
1:07:20 "Buying" culture and anti-fragility