When I was travelling the other week I picked up the magazine in the seat pocket in front of me on the plane. It had all these articles on the Nordics, about culture, artists, restaurants, start-ups but what caught my eye most was a piece about success. The message in the article was that failure […]
The other day I read an article about forgetting in the New York Times. It said that it’s actually good not to remember everything you learn. As I’m not the best at remembering names, places, movies or songs, this interesting piece gave me a glimmer of hope (could forgetting be a good thing?). Of course […]
Blended learning @ Spotify Our industry sector didn’t exist before we came along. We invented it and that’s what we’ve kept on doing. We invent the future and we love it. But to keep on doing that, we can’t rely on old truths and learnings, we need new ones or we’ll lose our edge. Without […]
What we do to lift our people into the growth mindset Looking at what makes people perform in a sustainable way, we realized that the ability to enhance learning and innovation is of essence. Learning new things, innovating and having fun while we do it, is what makes us a successful company. Being an industry […]
Spotify is a growing company. Hyper growing, in fact. Because we are expanding our business. So we are constantly looking for new talent to add to the existing. Our brand is strong which works out well, a lot of great people want to work here. But even more important for our growth is how we […]
Our performance development approach is a combination of looking at performance, to see what is needed for the company to reach the goals we set up, and looking at the development of our people. We believe you can’t really separate the two. We don’t have any reporting back to HR, or any heavy performance […]
So we ditched OKRs* for individuals. (You can read why in this blog post) We tried some other schemes for a while and gradually realized that we needed to find our own way of working with objectives and performance on the individual level. We decided early on that the development of our people must be […]
In 2013, we decided to ditch our employee OKRs*. Don’t get us wrong. We are into objectives and priorities and data and making sure everyone is moving in the same direction just as much as the next tech company is. But there were three main reasons why OKRs on an individual level were not doing […]