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Reed Hastings

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The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Yes, and in treating people like adults, you want to set some context of kind of what we mean by that and give some principles and examples.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

But yes, again, it's getting away, it's moving from the industrial model to the knowledge worker model.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And yet many of our corporate forms haven't adjusted fast enough to the basic work.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

I mean, I think people take bets about what's going to work.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And if they do end up working, then we say they had good judgment.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

So I think we recognize it by them making unusual choices and having those be quite successful.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

I think so.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

I mean, to varying degrees.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

I mean, it's kind of like music or something, which is everybody can learn some music.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Probably only some people become fantastic at it.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

But you need some teaching in it for sure.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

It's not like spoken language where it's so wired into our biology, everybody learns to speak.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

It hasn't been hard at all, partially because Greg and Ted were with me for 20 years and they were very ready.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And so it was exciting for them to get the opportunity that I had to have the responsibility and to manage so much global complexity.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

So I was excited for them.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And they've done a great job these last two years, so that helps.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And then in terms of my own time, it was nice just decompressing and then spreading my focus around these different philanthropic and then Powder Mountain efforts.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

Well, it's very broad, everything from YouTube to HBO.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

And then in every nation, it's a little bit different.

The Knowledge Project
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment

There's a lot of national networks.