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A review by labbyreads
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer, Reed Hastings
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Reed Hastings attributes Netflix's innovation and flexibility to the organization's culture built on Freedom and Responsibility. If you're looking to create a similar culture at your organization there are a few key components: talent density and candor. Once you've built up a team at the top of their field and created a culture of candid feedback, then leaders are encouraged to remove the controls and empower their employees.
I liked the joint authoring of the chapters. Meyer brought a balanced perspective as someone outside the Netflix culture.
In theory, a culture built on Freedom and Responsibility sounds like the ideal workplace for most knowledge workers. Still, there are a number of tactics that Netflix employs that could easily become toxic with the wrong individuals.
Each of the book's three main sections covers the same basic components (talent density, candor, freedom) but at different levels. By the time I was reading the last major section of the book, it felt like everything valuable about the philosophy had already been addressed in previous chapters.
Overall, I liked this book but there were a number of chapters that I found downright underwhelming. I recommend picking up Radical Candor instead.
I liked the joint authoring of the chapters. Meyer brought a balanced perspective as someone outside the Netflix culture.
In theory, a culture built on Freedom and Responsibility sounds like the ideal workplace for most knowledge workers. Still, there are a number of tactics that Netflix employs that could easily become toxic with the wrong individuals.
Each of the book's three main sections covers the same basic components (talent density, candor, freedom) but at different levels. By the time I was reading the last major section of the book, it felt like everything valuable about the philosophy had already been addressed in previous chapters.
Overall, I liked this book but there were a number of chapters that I found downright underwhelming. I recommend picking up Radical Candor instead.