The situation“Morale has dropped and I can't tell why.”
Leaders who made the same call — what each did, and how it went.
Worked
McCord, as Netflix's chief talent officer, noticed that the standard corporate HR apparatus (expense policies, vacation tracking, formal performance reviews) was doing something counterintuitive: it was actively eroding morale by signalling distrust.
Thasunda Brown Duckett became chief executive of TIAA (the $1.4 trillion retirement and asset-management firm serving the academic, medical, cultural, and research sectors) on 1 May 2021.
By early 2010, Justin.tv (the general-purpose live-video platform Michael Seibel had co-founded in 2007 alongside Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, and Kyle Vogt) was profitable but plateauing.
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