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Re:Is the HP Way still relevant today? by nine_k on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:33AM (#17586642)
The article links to the HP corporate culture booklet from 1980 written apparently by Hewlett. It's worth reading.

Can't fail to notice how successful a well-engineered company culture might be. The booklet gives pretty rational reasons for things like profit-sharing, stock sharing, company-sponsored medical insurance, management by objective and lack of micro-management, etc, all introduced by HP very early.

Re:Is the HP Way still relevant today? by sokoloff on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:49AM (#17586721)
Reading the HP Way PDF, I was struck that several authors bothered to call out that HP used first/personal names to address fellow employees.

I can't imagine NOT doing so, but obviously ~40 years ago, that was uncommon enough to be noteworthy.

[0] - http://www.hpalumni.org/HPWayBooklet1980.pdf

Re:Is the HP Way still relevant today? by maxxxxx on Sunday July 22, 2018 @10:00AM (#17586774)
They did that even in Germany when I visited there in the 90s. I had never seen this before.