People create culture, culture drives people.

People create culture, culture drives people. A good note to his people from Jack Dorsey.
Full text from Jack Dorsey to Block employees via Insider:
I want us to build a culture of excellence.
Excellence in service to our customers, excellence in our craft, excellence in our respective disciplines, and excellence to each other.
We want to help everyone achieve excellence here at Block. And if that's not possible for any one person, we want to acknowledge that, and part ways without delay (which is a perfectly fine and honorable outcome.)
Our current "performance management" practices do not help us achieve this. In fact, they are holding us back. Some have described them as a "denial of service attack on managers" given the time commitment versus the benefit to our people. There's also a perception that we allow people to "rest and vest" throughout the company, including poor managers who oversee great and promising individual
As we kick off our "annual performance review cycle," we're going to make some changes.

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