• Ben Horowitz said company culture is a way of working that will:
  • Distinguish you from competitors
  • Ensure that critical operating values persist such as delighting customers or making beautiful products
  • Help you identify employees who fit with your mission
• A properly designed culture often ends up looking cultlike in retrospect, but that’s not the initial design principle. You needn’t think hard about how you can make your company seem bizarre to outsiders. However, you do need to think about how you can be provocative enough to change what people do every day.

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• [[ 9a Startup Culture Notes from YC talk ]]
• [[ 9b My attempt at drafting mission and values for Howler ]]
• [[ 9c Great Groups culture from Bennis’ in Organising Genius ]]

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