GitHub CEO: What I learned from our harassment scandal

http://fortune.com/2015/09/29/github-ceo-40-under-40/

by strzalek • 11 years ago

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dalke3• 11 years ago

Perhaps I'm being dense, but the Forbes title doesn't seem to match the text, which only asks how the CEO navigated the harassment claim. The response given seems to be the bland "companies should think about company culture from the beginning."

Can someone point out what the CEO learned from the harassment scandal?

Mz2• 11 years ago

Sounds to me kind of like he learned this:

"People need to be treated right. That's not a nice to have or something you can put off until later. Failing to make your people feel safe and secure and free to focus on their work hurts their work and can come back to bite you in the arse."

dalke3• 11 years ago

That's what I meant by bland. It could be said after nearly any staff-related problems.

For example, if they had a rank-and-yank system and decided it wasn't worthwhile as good people were leaving to avoid the internal stress, then they could announce that they are getting rid of the policy, and repeat almost identical text.

In any case, I find it hard to believe that it really took a lawsuit to learn that "people need to be treated right", so that can't be the real lesson learned.

GitHub CEO: What I learned from our harassment scandal

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