3) POWER STRUCTURE
From "How Google Works" by Eric Schmidt
TGIF Feedback meetings: Both Google and 37Signals have weekly all-hands (“TGIF”) meetings for employees to ask questions directly to the CEOs about company issues.
Google's Default to Open: Valuing transparency and sharing quarterly reports with employees
Transparency at Pinterest and Stripe: From an interview with the founders on Genius
Your Org is a Product: BuzzFeed on Org Structures
Medium's Feedback MadLibs: How Medium is using narrative MadLibs to make the feedback process more relevant and actionable, and the process more human-centered.
How Leaders at Google, Buzzfeed and More Make Decisions on Fast Company
A Practical Guide to Cross-Functional Work by The Ready
The Tyranny of Structureless by Jo Freeman
How IDEO Designs Teamwork, interview with Dana Cho
How Basecamp Structures its Work and Teams by Jason Fried
Functional vs. Unit Organizations
Design the Team You Need to Succeed
Manu Cornet's wonderful illustration of power structure is below:
Explore other culture levers:
1) Values: Core assumptions and priorities
2) Talent: What organizations look for in new members; how they hire, onboard, incentivize and train employees
4) Rituals: Ceremonies, social environment and behaviors, dress codes
5) Ways of Working: The "way we do things around here": norms, the ways organizations respond to problems
6) Physical environment: office space, physical artifacts, work hours