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

we talke with patty mccord, nex. 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, patty mccord helped to define the modern workplace. there she was one of the authors , of the famous 124 page missive called "netflix culture: freedom and responsibility" that has been viewed 15 million times. but as we all know, silicon valley has not always been the picture-perfect image of maturity. patty mccord just published a new book this week and joined us from new york. patty: we 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

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

i got fired by patty mccord and receipt nude by ali moiz with streamlabs.thank you very much. >>> welcome back. at the top of the show we were talking about internet broadcast at pressheretv.com. thank you to my guests and thank you for making us part of your sunday morning. >>> it may be a laidback sunday in d.c., but the nhl's metro division is as jammed as a rush hour commute. the caps are first in the division led by the generation's most prolific goal scorer. but today alex ovechkin is on the verge of a different milestone sitting on 499 career assists. the current nhl assists leader is jake voracek with 45. his flyers are sixth but have climbed to within eight of the capitals with a game in hand. today's metro stop is

my name is catherine and i'm a second year master of public policy student here at georgetown mccordchool of public policy. i got involved in institute politics and public service my first semester here in the past year i've had the opportunity to work with and learn fromt s practitioners, journalists and policymakers. i also serve on the advisory council of the baker center for leader governance. as a future policymaker the experiences with both politics in the baker center have been invaluable in cultivating my leadership skills in teaching me what is required to lead successfully in the public eye. today we hear from the vision of public service from an esteemed group of panelist who were leaders in the clinton white house. john testa, service white house chief of staff to president clinton from 1998 through 192,001 where he helped carry out the final policy agendas of the and ministries. former chair of washington dc basede think tank, in 2008 he served as cochair of president obama'sho transition team. he also served as counselor to president obama. his duties there included ove

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mary mccord, sally yates, of course is out as well. she did not leave of her own accord. the president fired her. jeff sessions was then confirmed as attorney general. there were intelligence intercepts, it turns out that he also had conversations with russia that he didn't hadn't disclosed. the president reportedly told his white house chief of staff to tell jeff sessions -- excuse me, told his white house council to tell jeff sessions he shouldn't recuse. when sessions recused anyway "the washington post" reports that the president then sent the white house chief of staff, reince priebus, to then secure jeff sessions' resignation. within the justice department at the fbi the fbi's director, of course, was fired. after he says the president told him to layoff the investigation. that director says he conveyed the content of those directives from the president to a number of other fbi officials at the time, so they could effectively corroborate what james comey said, about how the president had pressured him to layoff the russia investigation when he recused and then he wa

the acting head of the national security division was marry mccord and salary yates is gone. the president fired her. jeff session was confirmed as attorney general. there were intelligence intercepts it turns out that revealed that jeff sessions had conversations with russia that he hadn't disclosed. the president nevertheless forced him to not recuse himself. the president told his white house chief of staff to tell jeff sessions -- told his white house cancel to tell jeff sessions he shouldn't recuse. when sessions recused anyway, "the washington post" reports the president then sent the chief of staff to go secure jeff sessions' resignation. within the justice department, at the fbi, the fbi's director was fired after he says the president told him to lay off the investigation. he conveyed the content to a number of fbi senior officials at the time so they could corroborate what comey said about how the president pressured him to lay off the russia investigation before he refused and he was fired. comey says he reported the president's behavior, the directors about the ru

. >> james mccord, the lead burglar, had been in the cia in the security business for decades and now the nixon campaign. and we thought wait a minute, what's going on here? >> woodward and bernstein never imagined that answering that question would lead them smack into the oval office. ♪ >>> on august 1st, 1972 i picked up woodward and bernstein's third article on watergate. it said that one of the watergate burglars had gotten money from the nixon campaign. what the reporters would soon discover was that nixon's re-election committee was engaging in a campaign of espionage and sabotage against the democrats. i was being sarcastic. i thought you were being a lightning rod? you're cute. whatever. can you get my plane? yeah, i don't do planes. i just do lightning. ♪ into the oval office. ♪ >>> on august 1st, 1972 i picked up woodward and bernstein's third article on watergate. it said that one of the watergate burglars had gotten money from the nixon campaign. what the reporters would soon discover was that nixon's re-election committee was engaging in a campaign of espionage and sabot

. >> james mccord, the lead burglar, had been in the cia in the security business for decades and nowurity at the nixon campaign. and we thought wait a minute, what's going on here? >> woodward and bernstein never imagined that answering that question would lead them smack into the oval office. ♪ do you want clean, stain free dentures? try polident. the four in one cleaning system kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria, cleans where brushing may miss. helps remove stains and prevent stain build up. use polident daily. we know life can be hectic. that's why, at xfinity, we've been working hard to simplify your experiences with us. now, with instant text and email updates, you'll always be up to date. you can easily add premium channels, so you don't miss your favorite show. and with just a single word, find all the answers you're looking for - because getting what you need should be simple, fast, and easy. download the xfinity my account app or go online today. >>> on august 1st, 1972 i picked up woodward and bernstein's third article on watergate. it said that one of the watergate burg

. >> let me go to patty mccord, part of this conversation and former chief talent officer at netflixalso 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? >> l

. >> 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