patty mccord helped define the modern workplace at netflix. a now famous 124-page missive called "netflix culture: freedom and responsibility." it's been viewed 15 million times. silicon valley hasn't always been the picture-perfect image of maturity. patty mccord joins us now from new york. thank you so much for joining us . what was it about netflix specifically that you think enabled them to pull this off and actually pull it off well? patty: we worked on it for a long time. culture deck you referred to i didn't write that -- the culture deck you referred to, i didn't write. we paid attention to it. we didn't just assume he would have a great culture that would stick around and be the same forever. we realized we could innovate and evolve the culture of the the sames long -- at time as we were innovating and evolving the product itself. emily: now, in some cases, having the right rules, when it comes to netflix, means having no rules, like unlimited vacation, which is the policy there. do you think it more is about hiring the right people o

patty mccord just published a new book this week and joined us from new york. didn't just assume that we would have a great culture that would stick around and be the same forever. we realized that we could innovate and evolve the culture and the company at the same time we were innovating and evolving the product itself. emily: in some cases, having the right goals when it comes to netflix -- having the right rules when it comes to netflix means having no rules, like unlimited vacation, which is the policy. do you think it is more about hiring the right people or creating the right structure? patty: it is absolutely both. if you create a structure that says you need people who have come who like a lot of responsibility, they like to have a lot of judgment in their work, they want to make their own decisions, then you have to hire those people who like to do that. and it is not everybody. i wrote my book not as a the -- i wrote my book not as a memoir of what we did at netflix, but i wrote my book because i think some of those rentals we applied apply to everyon

patty mccord joins us now from new york. thank you so much for joining us.it about netflix specifically that you think enabled them to pull this off and actually pull it off well? patty: we worked on it for a long time. the culture deck you referred to, i didn't write. a number of us wrote it, it took about 10 years to do it. what enabled us to do it is that we paid attention to it. we didn't just assume he would have a great culture that would stick around and be the same forever. we realized we could innovate and evolve the culture of the company as long -- at the same time as we were innovating and evolving the product itself. emily: now, in some cases, having the right rules, when it comes to netflix, means having no rules, like unlimited vacation, which is the policy there. do think it is more about hiring the right people or creating the right structure? patty: it's absolutely both. if you create a structure that says you need people who have -- who like a lot of responsibility, they like to have a lot of judgment in their work, they want to make their

we speak with patty mccord,.a reminder, all episodes of "bloomberg technology" are live streaming on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: welcome back to "the best of bloomberg technology," i'm emily chang. during her 14 year tenure at netflix, paddy mccourt helped to define the modern workplace. she was one of the authors of the famous 124 page missive called "netflix culture: freedom and responsibility" that has been 1 viewed 15 million times. -- buteka and val silicon valley has not always been the image of maturity. cutting the cord just published a new book this week and joined us from new york. that wedn't just assume would have a great culture that would stick around and be the same forever. we realized that we could inundate and evil the culture of the company, at the same time we were innovating and evolving the product itself. cases,now, in some having the right rules when it comes to netflix means having no rules, like unlimited vacation, which is the policy. do you think it is more about hiring the ri

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. >> let me go to patty mccord, part of this conversation and former chief talent officer at netflix lso an expert on workplace culture. patty? >> hi, guys, i keep thinking about all of the fabulous women leaders in the valley that have come from google. we can all name them. and so you have this great representation forgiving opportunity for women leaders. and yet there's james danamore and there's the prevailing -- the cliche of the frat house and the heaven for young white guy, asian guy engineers. and i think that's real. i live here too. i understand it. so when i looked at that particular situation, i thought, why did you hire that guy? i mean, you know, then of course you should fire him. and i'm bringing that up because i want to know for each of you as leaders, what did you learn from that very public situation and what are you going to personally do to make it different? >> let's just -- james demore was someone he fired quickly which is unusual for silicon valley, who is now suing you because he thinks you discriminated against conservative white men. is that correct? >> lo

. >> patty mccord, author of "powerful." >>> still following developments on the immigration matter inhe senate. moments ago senator lindsey graham, dick durbin, michael bennett, cory gardner and robert menendez have come to an agreement. they released a statement that read president trump called on congress to solve the daca challenge. we've been working for four months and have reached an agreement that addresses border security, diversity lottery, chain migration, family reunification and the d.r.e.a.m. act. we're now working to build support for that in congress. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt just wrapped up an interview with jeff flake of arizona. so maybe she can tell us what's really happening here. is there a deal? >> i got to tell you, this entire issue has gotten so confused over the course of this afternoon. flake was the first person who said they had a deal and then lindsey graham was at the white house with some other members. came back and says this is not what the white house wants to do. the white house thinks this deal that they have struck in this bi

patty mccord has a book called "powerful" that shares her tips for building a culture of freedom andnsibility thank you very much for being here >> thank you >> i was thinking about this last night this morning, thinking through the things you talked about at netflix, things that worked there. like no vacation policies, treating people like adults, paying them well if you value them and having no problem saying good-bye if things don't work out it's great, it's interesting not sure it would work everywhere tell us about the basic premises you tell companies to treat people like adults >> we have a big saying now in my field called empowering people it makes me crazy, that's why i named the book "powerful." the reason we have to empower everybody is because we took it all away you walk in the door with power, if you recognize that about the people we work with, we will quit doing a bunch of crazy stuff we do that doesn't matter. >> like what >> like annual performance reviews. everybody talks about how difficult it is to give hard feedback to people i say is there anything you do in y