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I don't want to touch a word.'īut I kept hearing it over and over. One of the most frequent topics I've heard internally over the past two years is whether we need to adapt our Culture and Values.Īt first, every time I heard someone bring this up, I thought to myself 'What? Why would we do that? Our Culture and Values are our greatest competitive advantage. In the face of all of this change, we've adapted and evolved across the platform, across our business, and across how we work. And the world has changed immensely for everyone over the past two years. However, LinkedIn has changed quite a bit over the past 13 years. The company has also never performed better. They've helped us attract thousands of new employees, re-attract hundreds of boomerang employees, and are what led to our approach to hybrid work. Culture and Values are the foundation for building an enduring, successful company. We first codified our Culture and Values 13 years ago and they are, without a doubt, LinkedIn's greatest competitive advantage. We just went through this process at LinkedIn, and after sharing it with our company last week and being encouraged by employees to tell the story more broadly, I wanted to share our journey. It's not easy, and it's not something to take lightly.

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Whether you are officer Rodney, coach Matt, or Dennis the dentist - your LinkedIn profile is a reflection of your professional identity, so it’s important to keep it up to date.As we start to come out of the Great Reshuffle, it's important for every company to be thoughtful and revisit their Culture and their Values. Monosyllabic CEO names are also not necessarily popular in all countries - here are the top over-represented CEO names across the globe: Short, four-letter names are even more popular in sales (Chip, Trey) but not in engineering (Rajesh) or the restaurant industry, where the top over-represented names are Thierry, Philippe and Laurent.

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Female CEOs, on the other hand, use their full name to project a more professional image. Frank Nuessel suggests that shortened versions of given names are often used to denote a sense of friendliness and openness.

Looking more closely, however, we observe a different trend: over-indexed CEO names tend to be either short or shortened versions of popular first names. At first glance, the top CEO names are a reflection of the CEO demographics. We started by contrasting CEOs across the globe with the average LinkedIn professional to find the top names that are over-represented among CEOs. Short Names, Long Names and the Gender Divide We’d like to share our findings with you in an infographic designed by Anita Lillie: I took advantage of one of our InDays to examine the correlations between people's first names and their career choices. LinkedIn is the perfect place to start: you can find 100 million professionals, their first names and their corresponding career histories (or, as our data science team calls it, a fun project waiting to happen). Are some names more successful than others? Is your name influencing your career (as David Brooks suggests, noting that Dennis is more likely to become a dentist and Lawrence a lawyer)? Or are both your career and choice of name influenced by factors like personality and values?Īny attempt to explore these questions would need some cold, hard data.

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