How to Fire People

How to Fire People

By Gimlet

In 1998, Patty McCord joined a new company called Netflix. Her title was chief talent officer. And over the next ten years as Netflix grew (and grew), she and CEO Reed Hastings built a new kind of workplace. They threw out all the usual rules -- no more expense authorization forms or vacation requests -- and focused on creating a culture of excellence. But that culture of excellence didn’t come only through hiring the right people. Patty had to get good at firing, too.  See the original Netflix culture deck here: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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