Using core values as the operating system for company culture
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Company culture talk showing concrete systems used at Thinking Ape: four core values — ownership, best ideas win, keep growing, have wonderful arguments — plus using the radical candor method to make debate productive. Examples include running a day long interdisciplinary workshop to draft values, eliminating a separate no QA department so engineers and designers own quality, standardized culture interview scoring with two interviewers and accepting false negatives, and measurable outcomes like culture awards and social games in alpha.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 0:10About me
- 1:33Company culture
- 2:43Core values
- 4:44Ownership
- 5:58Best Ideas Win
- 6:56Keep Growing
- 7:31Wonderful Arguments
- 8:06You Know Conversation
- 8:46Radical Candor Method
- 11:18The Interview
- 13:33The Process
- 14:24What can you do
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