Forget Company Culture. Create your own work culture!

1. Forget
company
culture
Forget
company
culture
Forget
company
culture
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2. “...it kind of doesn't really matter what
people do, given that ultimately you're the
one who's gotta be the animus. You're the
one who's actually going to have to go
ship, right?...

3. WHat COULDN’T YOu SHIP?!

4. … If we really, really are honest with
ourselves there’s not really that much
stuff we can't ship because other
people.” - Merlin Mann

5. Create your own work
culture*
* You don’t need to ignore the culture of your
company, just don't let it hold you from to be the
professional that you are.

6. This is my culture!

7. Mission: To destroy frontiers between
cultures and people through knowledge
and improve the world.

8. 1. Learn from mistakes

9. 2. Learn from other
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10. their successes
“
1. Embrace the Suck
2. Do It in Public
3. Pick Stuff That Matters”
- Jeff Atwood

11. and failures
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis,
Good companies survive them,
Great companies are improved by them.”
- Andy Grove
By Konstantin Lanzet (CPU
Collection Konstantin Lanzet)

12. 3. Keep your mind open

13. 4. Challenges are opportunities to grow

14. 5. Limitations
are a source of creativity

15. 6. Perfectionism is rubbish, there’s no
room for improvement in something
perfect

16. 7. Remembe he B P u e

17. 8. Kaizen

18. 9. Think! About Your Work

19. 10. Don't let fear hold you back

20. 11. Collaborate

21. 12. Communication is the key

22. 13. Provide Options, not lame
excuses

23. 14. Don't point fingers
Mr Butterfly on finger by Tatyana A., on Flickr

24. 15. Save your pride for your projects

25. 16. Embrace differences

26. 17. Agile and Lean aren't
methodologies, they are culture

27. 18. Leadership is not about power
is about responsibility
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28. 19. Think big, act small and see
from the top-down view

29. 20. Plan for the worst, expect to fail,
spot problems, but relax everything
will be okay

30. 21. Don’t forget ideas,
write them down, share

31. 22. Keep the flow

33. 24. Be a Catalyst for Change

34. 25. Question everything

35. 26. Nothing is static or final (except
in programming)

36. 27. Refactor Early, Refactor Often

37. 28. Work smart then work hard

38. 29. Don't waste time, it
is the most valuable resource

39. 30. Languages aren't religion!

40. 31. Never stop learning

41. PRACTICES

42. Learning weekends

43. Take a hour per
week to walk
around, meet
people and
collaborate.

44. Hackathons
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45. Hackerspace

46. Game nights

47. Dojos

48. Use 10-25% of
your free time to
work in a pet
project

49. Dogfooding

50. Give/
Attend
Talks

51. So… What is your culture?

52. Thanks!