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Culture as a Weapon

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John WillisDirector, Devops StrategyDell (Enstratius)@botchagalupe

Speaker introduction

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• 35 Years in IT Operations• Started out with Exxon • 30 years working with startups• A lot of failures

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WHO AM I (@botchagalupe)

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CAMS

•Culture•Automation•Measurement •Sharing

CAMS

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iTunes

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Culture

Culture Eats Strategy (Drucker)

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Three Tribes of Culture

1. Change Your Culture

2. You Can’t Change Culture

3. The Use It Culture

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Change YourCulture Tribe

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Change Your Culture Tribe

• Command and Control

• Culture Coaches

• Slogan Based

• Gold Coins

• Motivate and Potential

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Change Your Culture Tribe

• Command and Control

• Culture Coaches

• Slogan Based

• Gold Coins

• Motivate and Potential

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Change Your Culture Tribe

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You Can’t Change Culture Tribe

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You Can’t Change Culture Tribe

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

(Famous Drucker Mis-Quote)

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You Can’t Change Culture Tribe

“Don’t change corporate culture: use it,”

(Actual Drucker Quote)

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Use Your CultureTribe

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Use it Tribe

• Don’t change corporate culture: use it

• Figure out what it is and work with it

• Nurture it

• Weaponize it

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Use It Tribe

Simon Sinek“Start With Why”

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Use It Tribe

Lloyd Taylor: "Hacking Your Organization"

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Deming Fu

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Greatest “Why” Story Ever Told

“Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game — it is the game.”

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Use it Tribe

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High Performance Culture

• They don’t apologize for being tough

• They hire smart people who need to make hard decisions

• Everyone is expected to take risks and be an impact player

• Consistent contributor and innovator

• Increase trust promote freedom

• Adequate performance gets a generous severance package

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High Performance Culture

The real company values, as opposed tothe nice sounding values, are shown bywho gets rewarded, promoted, or let go.--Patty McCord

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High Performance Culture

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The Github Revolution

• Culture of collaboration

• People who like to share things

• Adopting automation as a culture

• Propagate culture

• no managers at github... everyone is a manager

• The structure of Github is unstructure

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The Etsy Way

• Code as craft (artisan)

• Enable people to make a living making things

• Blameless culture

• Tools to reinforce your culture

• Benefit Corporation

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Devops Companies ( GE )

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Reading List - Deming

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Reading List

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Reading List

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Reading List

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Software

Q&A

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