The Open Collective culture differs a great deal from traditionally organized companies. We think each person is able to do an excellent job without being told what to do by a line manager. We respect the input of all those involved and by being open to feedback, we continuously improve and innovate our solutions. While we work seriously to achieve the best possible result for ourselves and the customers, we like to do so in a way that is both meaningful and playful at the same time. Playfulness helps us not to stress out. Stress we believe is the biggest obstacle for both personal and professional growth and it also inhibits innovation and an open mindset. To give purpose to what we do energizes us provide the best solution to the customer, to improve our workplace, and help to contribute to make this world a better place. To strengthen all this, we work with self-managing teams. We strongly believe that the best way to meet our purpose is to work together and get the best (out of our) employees. We like to attract colleagues that have an entrepreneurial spirit, who take full authority in their roles and are ambassadors of what we stand for. We have chosen a self-managing methodology to build our organization. We at Open Collective choose not to have hierarchy, not to have job titles, no targets set by the directors. Instead, people have roles and work in self- managing teams, called circles. The purpose of each circle is related to the company purpose, and the purpose of each role serves the circle purpose. Employees have the authority to fill in their roles the way they feel is best and are free to give up roles an accept alternative or additional roles. This gives everybody at Open Collective free reign over their own career within the possibilities of our company. Authority is distributed amongst all employees. As all this differs a lot from the commonplace culture, we put habits and rituals in place to help us remind to really execute what we believe in. Our culture is designed to shift away from stress and fear to a more courageous and creative workplace.