Culture
Our company culture
We trust you to do the right work, and we expect you to own it.
The nine chapters
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Why we chose to start from scratch
A company has no reason to reproduce a practice simply because it has become the norm.
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Performance is not an individual property
Before asking more of people, let us build a system in which they can actually succeed.
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Five perfectly reasonable habits that end up breaking organisations
The problem is almost never the initial intention. It is what the mechanism produces once generalised.
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Managing without surveillance
The role of management is not to push people. It is to keep the system from slowing them down.
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Promises rather than tasks
No one should commit someone else’s work on their behalf.
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Writing what must survive, deciding without theatre
A conversation lets us work now. An artifact lets the organisation keep working tomorrow.
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Being able to say stop before it is too late
An early piece of bad news is information. A hidden one becomes a crisis.
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Progressing without playing employee of the month
We want to recognise mastery and transmission, not the ability to optimise one’s visibility.
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Would I enjoy working at Cercle?
The way we work is not designed to please everyone. That is deliberate.
Explore · Would I enjoy working at Cercle?
