Over the past couple of weeks, the culture of one particular company has been almost permanently in the tech news. Uber has hit the headlines again and again since one of its former employees shared, in a blog post, her experience with harassment and discrimination as a female engineer. These stories highlight just how powerful company culture can be, for better or worse, and the extent to whoch the tone and culture of a company is set by a CEO, whether actively or passively.Ubers CEO Travis Kalanick is in large measure responsible for the company culture at Uber, and he has set the tone for it from the beginning. As a single man, hes boasted in the past about sexual conquests enabled by his role, and has a reputation for being combative, aggressive and impatient qualities that have arguably served Uber well in its rapid growth and competition with players like Lyft. But those same qualities have also created some of the toxic culture that now exists at Uber, and his personal combativeness got him in trouble this week when a video of him arguing with an Uber driver was released.
Källa: Travis Kalanick has no one but himself to blame for Uber’s toxic company culture – Recode
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