Netflix's 128 Slides on Culture. Awesome.

The blogosphere is lit up with discussion of this 128-slide internal presentation on culture at Netflix, dug up by the Hacking Netflix blog and discussed in this TechCrunch story.

I'm a big believer in the importance of corporate culture as a competitive advantage and often use colorful analogies (e.g., swarming antibodies, Lord of the Flies) to describe one aspect of the culture (mediocrity intolerance) that I want at Mark Logic.  Slides 41-51 do a good job of describing what happens as a company grows -- and as I witnessed at Business Objects -- in this regard.

So while I'm not ready to sign up for everything in the Netflix deck, I think it's about as visionary and practical a piece on corporate culture as anything I've seen.  Truly excellent stuff.


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