{"id":58,"date":"2011-07-25T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-10-28T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:47:48","slug":"no-brilliant-jerks-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/2011\/07\/25\/no-brilliant-jerks-at-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"No &#8220;brilliant jerks&#8221; at Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone talks about company values, but few do anything about them. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/taylor\/2011\/07\/news_corp_netflix_values.html\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s a post by Bill Taylor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/fastcompany.com\/\">Fast Company<\/a><\/em>\u00a0magazine about how values really mean behavior. \u00a0He quotes Netflix CEO<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066438,00.html\">Reed Hastings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Values are what we value,&#8221; Hastings declares in his presentation, and values &#8220;are shown by who gets promoted, rewarded or let go.&#8221; Actual company values, he continues, &#8220;are the behaviors and skills that are valued in fellow employees.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, not platitudes framed on a wall, but what people consistently do and say &#8211; and how they do it and say it. \u00a0Hastings and Taylor believe that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">a great place to work isn&#8217;t about free lunches or weekly massages. A great place to work is about &#8220;stunning colleagues,&#8221; an organization filled with people who bring out the best in themselves and in everyone around them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, even though I&#8217;m a little mad at Netflix right now over their price increases, I feel better knowing that they&#8217;re trying to be human-hearted in corporate life. \u00a0We need more of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone talks about company values, but few do anything about them. \u00a0Here&#8216;s a post by Bill Taylor of\u00a0Fast Company\u00a0magazine about how values really mean behavior. \u00a0He quotes Netflix CEOReed Hastings: &#8220;Values are what we value,&#8221; Hastings declares in his presentation, and values &#8220;are shown by who gets promoted, rewarded or let go.&#8221; Actual company values, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/2011\/07\/25\/no-brilliant-jerks-at-netflix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}