FYI: McCord explains what it was like meeting Reed Hastings, arguing with him about HR, then talking him into hiring her to run his then company’s HR department (this was long before Netflix was created). She helped create a corporate culture that could manage the rapid growth of a company that was doubling every few months. When Hastings invested in, then joined Netflix to run it, he brought Patty along to run the firms recruiting and HR.
She says she speaks two languages fluently: English and Engineering.
Her biggest regret was being so late in recognizing the power and influence women have in corporate settings. Women tend to manage accounting and HR and have far more power than they realize.
Regards,
Ted
http://ritholtz.com/2018/04/mib-patty-mccord-netflix/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBigPicture+(The+Big+Picture)
