Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies
There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.
Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrel-evant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don't need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world.
Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings's own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.
Omeno M. –
“the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
Colleen Hoover, Verity
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Not only was this book unputdownable and gripping but Verity ripped. My. Heart. Out! No pun intended.
How can a book be so chill and yet so freaking hot at the same time? Colleen Hoover’s writing style had me piqued because it so good (and feels like because this is a thriller we didn’t get much of its beauty) . Read:
“His mouth leaves mine in search of other parts of me he seems eager to taste. My jaw, my neck, the tops of my breasts. It’s as if he’s been starving himself *of me. He’s kissing me and touching me with the hunger of a man who’s been fasting his whole life.”
The story is told through Lowen’s pov and a manuscript written by Verity Lowen stumbled into: Between some horrid, jaw dropping scenes to steamy
When you think things can’t get any worse, Hoover twists your mind/ even further that by the end of the book I questioned all the characters morality with the exception of Crew.
Verity is a book that truly showcases that not two people read a book the same way: then book ends in this twist that will make you question the main character of not all.
I also feel this will make a perfect book club read because one, you’d want to unpack from what you just read and two, with all that ending that makes you doubt your judgment hearing what the other thinks would have y’all roaring.
I’d highly recommend to any thriller fan.