An Example of Culture

You see lots of these posts about how culture is most-important, with anecdotes of youthful, energized companies where Everything is Awesome®.

This post has all that, but it also has a clear, definite example of a good core value, that I thought was interesting:

At first, she explained, the primary focus was testing for humility during the
hiring process, and they had a checklist to enforce their “no assholes” rule.
But they quickly realized they needed to do more. As the company grew, they
wanted to keep the same GSD (Get Stuff Done) attitude across the company and
not let their company turn into “just another company.” This was tricky, but
because the founders and employees were deeply committed to this attitude, they
developed the following solution: “You can’t complain here,” Tamara explained.
“If you see something wrong, you must fix it. We say it is a great opportunity
to come up with a solution, and this is where many of our best programs have
come from. Anything can be changed. We aren’t victim to anyone. We own the
culture.”

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