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No Rules Rules

Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

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No Rules Rules

By: Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Narrated by: Jason Culp, Allyson Ryan
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Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. Adequate performance gets a generous severance. And never, ever try to please your boss.

These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 125 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation bigger than Disney.

Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix.

From unlimited holidays to abolishing financial approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation, one far more in tune with a fast-paced world. For anyone interested in creativity, productivity and innovation, the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. This book will make it, and its creator, fully accessible for the first time.

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Loved blown! Such informative nuggets on the culture of invention that seeks to foster freedom and responsibility,and the cultural building blocks beginning with talent density and candor.
Really awesome!

Informative, Simply written, Clearly articulated.

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Got better as the book went on as it gives a good insight into Netflix’s unique culture and how that can be balanced in another environment

Good insight into Netflix’s success

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High performing creative workforces need a better management model than command and control. If this is of interest to you, get the book.

Better management of a creative workforce

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I really enjoyed this book. It has helped me review my management style and made me rethink a few of my view points. NZ employment law limits what can be implemented around performance management but the points made are worth discussing within a management team.

I felt inspired

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So many great insights to change your way of thinking and easy to adopt the learnings

Loved it

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I found this book insightful and interesting. It illustrates a new approach to management.

Interesting read

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Not a bad book for a look into different management styles. More a management book than a founder story.

The book highlights perhaps why you’d want to work at netflix and why owning any shares in the company is probably a bad idea. Highlights the lack of cost control that you can just see will become pervasive in the company if it continues on this path - clearly the right strategy in the 2010s when revenue growth at any cost was rewarded.

Interesting Read

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I am always sceptical of books about founders but it was good to hear the way they gave examples of when things didn't work and how they addressed it (rather than just hero worshipping).

If you are in a firm with a deeply embedded culture then this is not going to give you any quick fixes but an insightful read (or listen) that shows there are better ways for an organisation to function.

Good audiobook and surprisingly balanced

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An exceptional guide to running a better business. I bought multiple copies of this book and gave them to all my key managers, and it's made a real difference to what we do. Every business owner should read this

Amazing business guide

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I went in with high expectations, after being recommended this book by multiple colleagues; it did not disappoint. No Rules Rules Is marvellous book full of whit, insight and aha moments. Absolutely essential for anyone with a hand in driving a business and interested in organisational change.

Phenomenal aha moment

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