The Culture Deck

Netflix wrote one. Then everyone wrote one. Thirty slides about what makes their culture special.

“We’re a family.” “We hire the best and let them do their work.” “Radical transparency.”

The culture deck is the company’s dating profile. It describes who they want to be, which is almost never who they are. The gap between the culture deck and the culture is called Tuesday.

Every culture deck says “we value feedback.” Very few cultures value the person who gives it.