{"id":8742,"date":"2017-02-01T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turo.com\/blog\/?p=8742"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:03:52","slug":"what-makes-turo-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turo.com\/blog\/news\/what-makes-turo-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes Turo tick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: This article is an excerpt from a longer piece\u00a0posted this morning to\u00a0Medium<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Connecting the dots to a compelling, not cultish, company\u00a0culture<\/h3>\n
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January is always an invigorating time. A new year means a fresh start to really set goals and figure out a smart way to get there, both personally and professionally. At\u00a0Turo<\/a>, we\u2019ve gone so far as to institutionalize this goal-setting exercise semiannually with a week-long affair where every employee from across the globe\u200a\u2014\u200afrom our offices in Cambridge, Scottsdale, Toronto, and London\u200a\u2014\u200adescend on our San Francisco HQ to reflect, project, hack, and bond.<\/p>\n

Our so-called \u201cTurbo Week\u201d just wrapped up last week. Now revved up and ready to tackle 2017, we spent last week reviewing our performance from the last half of 2016, looking at the things we said we were going to do and whether or not we accomplished them, discussing successes and failures, and collectively defining our roadmap for the next six months. And we hung out together. Like, a lot.<\/p>\n

Turbo Week is always a special time for me \u200a\u2014 \u200ait became a twice-a-year mainstay way back in July 2014\u200a \u2014\u200a and this year as I watched our 160-person-strong family pack our auditorium, I\u2019ve gotten to thinking about our company culture and how we\u2019ve built the supportive, down to earth, efficient, and pioneering team that I see today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So how do you create a company culture that resonates? One that\u2019s inspiring and compelling without slipping down the slope into cultishness?<\/p>\n

Here are some insights that have helped me and our team cultivate our startup from small and scrappy back in 2010 to blooming and growing into 2017…<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s note: This article is an excerpt from a longer piece\u00a0posted this morning to\u00a0Medium. Connecting the dots to a compelling, not cultish, company\u00a0culture January is always an invigorating time. A…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,39],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-news","tag-thought-leadership"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t