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NetApp’s Tom Mendoza on Communicating with the Employee Culture - Commoncog Case Library

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How NetApp’s president Tom Mendoza thinks about demonstrating ‘legends’ for the employees.

Tom Mendoza served as president and then vice chairman of data storage giant NetApp from 2000 to 2008. The following anecdotes are taken from Stan Slap’s 2015 book Under The Hood, where Mendoza reflects on two incidents in the company where he deliberately took action for the sake of sending a message to NetApp’s employee culture. “I hired a guy to run the Israel division of NetApp who was fantastic for us. His name is Shlomo Nataf, really just a fantastic guy. Number one market share, the whole thing. And then he retired, and our employees in Israel asked if two of the founders, Dave and…

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