2. Global Marketing2
John Willis
Director, Multi Cloud Management
Dell (Enstratius)
@botchagalupe
Speaker introduction
• 35 Years in IT Operations
• Started out with Exxon
• 30 years working with startups
• A lot of failures
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3. WHO AM I (@botchagalupe)
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10. 9
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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11. 10
You Can’t Change Culture Tribe
“Don’t change corporate
culture: use it,”
(Actual Drucker Quote)
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12. 11
Nurture It Tribe
• Don’t change corporate
culture: use it
• Figure out what it is and
work with it
• Nurture it
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17. 16
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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19. 18
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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20. 19
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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