Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Randy Shoup, VP of Engineering at WeWork about what is needed to create a high-performance culture. Why listen to this podcast: • Theory X leaders believe that people are inherently lazy and need extrinsic motivation which results in micromanagement and disempowerment • Theory Y says that people are intrinsically motivated and want to perform well, the role of management is to remove impediments and enable people to do their best • Organisations with generative cultures based on trust and learning consistently perform better than bureaucratic cultures based on rules and standards • The worst performers are characterised by pathological cultures based on fear and threat • With a piece of software, it doesn’t matter how much effort we’ve put in to producing it, if we haven’t shipped it there is no value More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2KI6vWW You can also subscribe t