The Netflix Success Story is Proof

It's good to be King ??

These two excerpts from the Netflix culture page tell the whole story:

"We believe that people thrive on being trusted, on freedom, and on being able to make a difference. So we foster freedom and empowerment wherever we can."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of?The Little Prince,?shows us the way: If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Thinking Outside The Box

Today the business world is in a kind of passive crisis. There are so many organizational problems connected to stabilizing the workplace and workforce. It's uphill all the way. The problem is that we're still stuck in our standard ways of doing things, so it's difficult to think outside the box. Feeling comfortable nowadays in the workplace is a real privilege.

For a method to be totally correct for our time, it must be an open source method that can be accessed and applied by all.

There is one exception to everything we're hearing, a company that seems to be above all the new issues and that's Netflix. I've read the Glassdoor reviews but all the details don't really matter. The only thing that matters is that if one company succeeded in rising above all the typical issues that plague the workplace, any company can. I'm always talking about integral systems - Netflix is proof that it's possible. So no one can tell me it's not possible. Don't tell us it's hard to engage young people, because clearly it is possible to communicate in a way that provides a good living and allows for creativity. Everyone is still doing things the old way and that's why they're complaining.

More on the unique Netflix culture:

Co-CEO Reed Hastings has long touted Netflix’s vision to create an “amazing and unusual employee culture” focused on constantly building a “dream team,” as laid out in extensive detail with a?group document ?in its jobs section that “hundreds” of employees contributed to. The document is remarkable, a thorough critique and rejection of the operating credos (explicit or implicit) of many other companies, especially in in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.?

“We don’t buy into the lore of senior leaders, who are so involved in the details that their product or service becomes amazing,” the “Netflix Culture” document says. “The legend of Steve Jobs was that his micromanagement made the iPhone a great product. Others take it to new extremes, proudly calling themselves nano-managers. The heads of major networks and studios sometimes make many decisions in the creative process of their content. We do not emulate these top-down models because we believe we are most effective and innovative when employees throughout the company make and own decisions.” (nexttv.com)

Choosing The Right Path Forward

From now on we're going to have forge a new path. The old linear methodology is not the right path forward, and neither is this more circular approach used by Netflix. The right path forward will merge both. Up until now companies had to choose between these types of methods, but neither is the right way to go. The right way is always choosing the middle line, through the integration of two methods that complement one another. We have many such systems as examples. Men and women are two separate systems. The connection between them builds a complementary system, and descendants emerge from the contrast between them if they build it in completion. This is why we see such high statistics in divorce these days - everyone wants to be right and won't give an inch. We're not yet familiar with the art of complementing/completing one another. In Hebrew it's the same word - hashlama. Same goes for the world of business - no method can be 100% unless it can be used by every single person, and all of humanity.

So what am I saying? For a method to be totally correct for our time, it must be an open source method that can be accessed and applied by all. This is why I'm always talking about Connection Workshops that are based on examples from nature. No one owns the method or has any special rights to the method. The only condition is that ideally it will be passed on through a human experience.