Slow Growth - Software Makers & Society - slow-growth.com ![rw-book-cover|200x400](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article0.00998d930354.png) ## Metadata - Author: **slow-growth.com** - Full Title: Slow Growth - Software Makers & Society - Category: #articles - Tags: #business #management - URL: https://slow-growth.com/2022/03/04/software-makers-and-society.html ## Highlights - Research10 has gone far into making tangible those aspects of company culture that are shared by high-performing organisations. Often these companies operate in small, cross-functional teams with end-to-end ownership, highly autonomous in their daily operations, but also highly aligned to shared and understood business goals. The generative type of organisational culture as outlined by Westrum11 provides a broad but actionable description of the types of corporate culture we should be striving for. - High performing organisations are obsessively disciplined about their metrics, usually choosing a specific one – a ‘North Star Metric’12 – to track overall business performance. Teams then break this metric down to its smallest components in detailed KPI trees13 - Tags: #red