Alan Schaaf Quotes

Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility.

Mojang doesn't want to just have work relationships, they want social relationships between friends.

In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

You look at the staff, the whole staff, from the security to the nutritionists, everybody. Everybody's happy. They want to be there. They look like they want to be in the UFC.

Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you're in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it's the death of creativity.

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.

I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs.

I like it when the team is training very well, when they are trying to improve, and I like it also when they have fun.

I don't think there's any space for any negativity or insecurity on the set of 'Housefull 4.' It feels like a big, crazy family.