Moving from Rituals to Outcomes
Rebecca Parsons
CTO
ThoughtWorks
Many of our cultural norms manifest themselves in rituals. However, rituals can't scale. In this talk, I'll describe the cultural evolution of a company scaling from less than 100 to over 8000 and still growing. One key is to focus on the outcome of a ritual and achieve that outcome through new rituals as a company grows.
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