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Opinion
Most companies treat culture statements as recruiting marketing, not management tools
“Most organizations put up these culture statements that are like, I think they're marketing statements in effect, like they care more about how it works in recruiting than they actually are using it as a way of managing the company.”
Jeff Hunter Jan 21, 2020 ▶ 39:04 #74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
Insight
Improvement is impossible without a structured organizational feedback loop
“Most organizations do not make a clear statement of what the employee can expect with regards to the quality and frequency of feedback and how it will be delivered. And yet, if you don't have a feedback loop, you cannot improve.”
Jeff Hunter Jan 21, 2020 ▶ 37:52 #74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
Insight
Fast-growing companies commonly suffer from a lack of explicit goals
“What we find is it's very common for people not to be explicit about their goals. It's very common for the executives not to be explicit about their goals. It's very common for the managers. Everybody just sort of shows up and works on the thing that's present…”
Jeff Hunter Jan 21, 2020 ▶ 36:43 #74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
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