{"id":25536,"date":"2021-01-16T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=25536"},"modified":"2021-01-30T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T23:22:03","slug":"no-rules-rules-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/no-rules-rules-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"No Rules Rules Quotes: 3 Passages to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you looking for some <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes? How are the main messages of the book about Netflix management captured in its key passages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes highlight some of the main lessons from author and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. These quotes from the book focus on performance, feedback, and autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on for three <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes and what they mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> Quotes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIf you have a team of five stunning employees and two adequate ones, the adequate ones will sap managers\u2019 energy, so they have less time for the top performers, reduce the quality of group discussions, lowering the team\u2019s overall IQ, force others to develop ways to work around them, reducing efficiency, drive staff who seek excellence to quit, and show the team you accept mediocrity, thus multiplying the problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of the <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes is about performance. Performance\u2014whether good or bad\u2014is contagious. Hastings hadn\u2019t realized that, before the layoffs, <strong>the mere presence of adequate employees had been dragging down the performance of his entire team.<\/strong> On a team of high performers, just one or two mediocre workers can have adverse effects:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They reduce efficiency by forcing others to find ways of working around their less-than-stellar performance.<\/li><li>They bring down the quality of group discussion.<\/li><li>They take managers\u2019 energy and attention away from top performers.<\/li><li>They cause the team to produce lower-quality work, which causes some high-performing employees to quit out of frustration.<\/li><li><strong>Their presence sends a message to everyone else that company leaders condone mediocrity, which reduces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ways-to-motivate-employees\/\">motivation and performance<\/a> across the board.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One study showed that a single low performer brings an entire team\u2019s productivity down by 30 to 40 percent. In the experiment, college students were grouped in teams of four to perform a task in 45 minutes\u2014but the students didn\u2019t know that each team included an actor who was assigned to play the role of a jerk, a slacker, or a depressive pessimist. Regardless of the talents of the rest of the group, by the end of the session, each team had adopted the attitude of its bad apple: The jerk\u2019s teammates were insulting each other, the slacker\u2019s teammates had given up on the task, and the pessimist\u2019s teammates had deflated and lay their heads down on their desks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By contrast, as Hastings discovered, <strong>a team full of highly talented people pushes everyone\u2019s performance up.<\/strong> Hastings vowed to hire only the best employees, and, in Chapters 4 and 7, we\u2019ll discuss how he reinforced this principle by paying top dollar to keep great employees and training managers to identify and let go of anyone\u2014from receptionists to executives\u2014who fell below that standard. To cultivate the adaptive, innovative culture Netflix needed, Hastings created a high-performing workforce that provided the foundation for the following practices we\u2019ll discuss.&nbsp;Next are two more <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes, which would support high performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI recommend instead focusing first on something much more difficult: getting employees to give candid feedback to the boss. This can be accompanied by boss-to-employee feedback. But it\u2019s when employees begin providing truthful feedback to their leaders that the big benefits of candor really take off.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The second of the <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes is about feedback. Leaders should show how much they value feedback by being the first to receive it. This sets the tone for a candid environment, but it can still be intimidating for employees to critique their bosses. Managers can lower this barrier in two ways:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In one-on-one meetings with employees, <strong>list \u201cfeedback\u201d as an agenda item<\/strong>. This shows that you\u2019re serious about soliciting critiques, and that employees\u2019 candor is not only allowed, but expected.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/responding-to-feedback\/\">Respond to feedback<\/a> in an open, appreciative way.<\/strong> For example, move closer physically, use a warm tone of voice, look into the employee\u2019s eyes in a positive way, and thank the employee for her candor. These cues show the employee that it\u2019s a safe environment to voice her opinions.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to setting an example for openly accepting criticism, leaders often need to hear what their employees are thinking. The higher your position in an organization, the less feedback you typically receive, because colleagues are less likely to question an executive than a mid-level employee. Furthermore, the consequences of a manager\u2019s error are typically greater than a junior employee\u2019s mistake\u2014the junior employee may flub a single project, while the manager could steer the company into a bad business deal. <strong>Leaders need their staff to let them know when they\u2019re veering in the wrong direction.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWith my next company, Netflix, I hoped to promote flexibility, employee freedom, and innovation, instead of error prevention and rule adherence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The third of the <em>No Rules Rules<\/em> quotes is about autonomy and the Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/netflix-freedom-and-responsibility\/\">culture of Freedom and Responsibility<\/a>. The first critical business practice that Hastings established at Netflix\u2014to hire and keep only the best employees\u2014grew out of lessons he\u2019d learned from a previous business failure and from a challenge in Netflix\u2019s early days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first lesson was one he\u2019d taken from the growth of his first company, Pure Software. In the first few years after the company\u2019s founding in 1991, the culture was flexible and fun. The organization was still small enough that the employees enjoyed a great deal of freedom, whether that meant working from home or buying office equipment without purchase orders or approvals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as Pure Software grew, it became more difficult to manage without implementing some controls. Every time an employee made a costly mistake, Hastings enacted a policy to prevent it from happening again. Soon, the formerly flexible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/startup-culture\/\">startup culture<\/a> had morphed into a rigid corporate environment. <strong>Hastings realized that the employees who thrived in rules-heavy workplaces were people who excelled at following protocol, rather than the innovators he needed to keep the company agile and successful. <\/strong>Ultimately, this led to Hastings\u2019s downfall at Pure Software: When market needs changed, the company couldn\u2019t adapt and Hastings was forced to sell the company to his competitor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for some No Rules Rules quotes? How are the main messages of the book about Netflix management captured in its key passages? These No Rules Rules quotes highlight some of the main lessons from author and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. These quotes from the book focus on performance, feedback, and autonomy. 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