ISBN: 0593107381
EAN: 9780593107386
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication Date: 09/08/2020
Edition description: Unabridged
Product Dimensions: 5.00 x 5.90 x 1.00
Language: English
BOOK OVERVIEW
The New York Times bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year
For the first time, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings reveals the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.
There has never been a company like Netflix before. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industry, 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 was launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service and has had to reinvent itself repeatedly. This unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to build instead 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 irrelevant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss; you give candid feedback instead. Employees don't need approval at Netflix; the company pays at the top of the market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. However, 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.
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 the business world envies. 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 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Reed Hastings is an entrepreneur who has revolutionized entertainment since co-founding Netflix in 1997, serving as its chairman and CEO since 1999. His first company, Pure Software, was launched in 1991 and was acquired just before Netflix launched. Hastings served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004 and is an active educational philanthropist. He has sat on the board of several academic organizations, including Dreambox Learning, the KIPP Foundation, and the Pahara Institute. He received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983 and an MSCS in artificial intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a volunteer teacher in southern Africa.
Erin Meyer is the author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business and a professor at INSEAD, one of the world's leading international business schools. Her work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Forbes.com. In 2019, Meyer was selected by the Thinkers50 as one of the fifty most influential business thinkers in the world. She received an MBA from INSEAD in 2004 and lives in Paris, France. In 1994 and 1995, Meyer also served in the Peace Corps as a volunteer teacher in southern Africa. Visit erinmeyer.com for more information.
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