Citation
Netflix Culture Deck
TL;DR
127 slides codifying Netflix culture principles
The original 127-slide presentation that codified Netflix's culture principles and has been viewed over 20 million times. This document demonstrated that culture can be engineered through explicit mechanisms rather than left to chance.
For business readers, the Culture Deck is a worked example of organizational homeostasis. Each principle serves as part of a feedback system: 'We're a team, not a family' sets expectations, 'Adequate performance gets generous severance' provides the effector response, and the deck itself serves as the reference point (set point) against which behavior is measured.
Key Findings from Hastings & McCord (2009)
- 127 slides codifying Netflix culture principles
- Viewed over 20 million times
- Principles include: team not family, generous severance for adequate performance, context not control, top of market pay
- Influenced culture thinking across Silicon Valley