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Elad Blog: Never, Ever Compromise: Hiring For Culture Fit

Your company culture is the foundation on which everything you do rests. Your culture acts as an unwritten set of rules that drives behavior and cohesion across the company. Cohesive, insular cultures are more resilient and can withstand shocks to it (e.g. pivoting multiple times) as well as can be extremely motivational / draw out the best in people (e.g. engineers at Palintir sleeping under their desks in their belief they are helping national security, the emergence of Google's " don't be evil " doctrine).

http://blog.eladgil.com/2012/04/never-ever-compromise-hiring-for.html

THE STATE OF GOOGLE

We had In The Plex author Steven Levy as a guest on the SAIcast this week – you should listen , and then go buy his book – and I learned a bunch of new stuff about Google: There's a division at the company called "Google X."

For all of last week, the Dropbox office was transformed into a gigantic open workshop for our first annual Hack Week. Hack week is a dedicated week for members and friends of the team to work on something entirely new, while turning some of the ideas that have been brewing in the back of our minds into reality.

The Dropbox Blog » Blog Archive » Hack week!

The Cover-Up Culture « Steve Blank

http://steveblank.com/2011/01/10/the-cover-up-culture/

In a startup “Good news needs to travel fast, but bad news needs to travel faster.”

Yesterday I wrote a post about top-down versus bottom-up thinking .

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/07/14/doing-the-right-things-is-more-important-than-doing-things-right/

Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right | Both Sides of the Table

Events Often Overtake Companies

I've found myself saying "events overtake companies" a lot this week. I'm not sure exactly why it was the phrase of the past week, but I did spend a lot of time talking to entrepreneurs running businesses that are growing rapidly, causing the founders to rethink their strategic plans.

http://revelateur-d-image.typepad.com/pleindidees/2008/09/why-ceo-fail-po.html

Bien, dans la catégorie patate chaude sieur JHD m'a accrochée à la chaîne "Why CEO fail" ou "pourquoi un patron se plante". On verra bien à la fin si je suis sélectionnée en deuxième année semaine.

Pourquoi un patron se plante

StartupCFO: Which F1 driver are you?

http://continuations.com/post/242541771/hiring-lack-of-diversity-becomes-self-reinforcing

Hiring: Lack of Diversity Becomes Self-Reinforcing - Continuatio

The first startup I was involved with was a management consulting company in Germany. I had been out of college for less than a year when I joined four much more experienced guys in forming Bossard Consultants Germany (some initial funding was provided by Bossard France, a well established consulting firm there). We got off to a great start, landing some premier clients such as Lufthansa and Porsche.

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.”

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/09/02/should-founders-be-allowed-to-take-money-off-the-table/