I read Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord and reviewed it as part of my ongoing series.

Quick review: Patty McCord is the former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and co-creator of the famous Netflix culture deck. If the deck is the ‘what’ of Netflix’s high performing culture, this book serves as the ‘how’ and ‘why’. It’s a relatively quick read and offers some unique suggestions on developing and maintaining strong corporate cultures at fast growing companies. I was struck by how counter some of the suggestions were to the norms that exist in companies today.