Reed Hastings
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
But yes, again, it's getting away, it's moving from the industrial model to the knowledge worker model.
And yet many of our corporate forms haven't adjusted fast enough to the basic work.
I mean, I think people take bets about what's going to work.
And if they do end up working, then we say they had good judgment.
So I think we recognize it by them making unusual choices and having those be quite successful.
I think so.
I mean, to varying degrees.
I mean, it's kind of like music or something, which is everybody can learn some music.
Probably only some people become fantastic at it.
But you need some teaching in it for sure.
It's not like spoken language where it's so wired into our biology, everybody learns to speak.
It hasn't been hard at all, partially because Greg and Ted were with me for 20 years and they were very ready.
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.
So I was excited for them.
And they've done a great job these last two years, so that helps.
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.
Well, it's very broad, everything from YouTube to HBO.
And then in every nation, it's a little bit different.
There's a lot of national networks.