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| Company | Fork date | The fork | Options | Choice | Stated rationale | What happened | Judgment analyst | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Read the story → verified | 2021-07-01 | Whether to expand the Leadership Principles in response to criticism |
| Add new principles | The new principles adopted the themes of prominent criticisms aimed at Amazon over warehouse conditions and market power | No dated outcome stated yet | reversibility high verdict too-early | CNBC (2021-07); Time (2021-07) |
| Boeing Read the story → verified | 2001-09-04 | Whether to keep corporate headquarters beside the factories or relocate it far from operations |
| Move headquarters to Chicago | Chicago was chosen as central to operating units, customers and the financial community, but separate from existing operations | 5 years · 2020-09 Congressional finding on 737 MAX: House report found a 'disturbing pattern of technical miscalculations and troubling management misjudgments' | reversibility low verdict held | HistoryLink.org (citing Seattle Post-Intelligencer contemporaneous reporting) (2003-03); U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (2020-09) |
| Circuit City Read the story → verified | 2007-03-28 | Whether to fire veteran staff paid above market salary range and rehire at lower wages |
| Fire the overpaid veterans | The company framed it as a cost move to strengthen Circuit City for the long term | 1 year · 2008-09 CEO tenure: Schoonover resigned, seven weeks before the bankruptcy filing | reversibility low verdict held | The Washington Post (2007-03); ABC News / Good Morning America (2007-03); University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Law (citing Eastern District of Virginia court record) (2013); NBC News (2008-09) |
| Meta Read the story → verified | 2014-05-02 | Whether to keep 'move fast and break things' as Meta's operating maxim at scale |
| Adopt stable infrastructure | The demands placed on a massive, publicly traded company where a broken page becomes a liability at scale | 5 years · 2026-05 workforce reductions: Meta has cut more than 30,000 employees since 2022 | reversibility high verdict held | Engadget (2018-04); Wikipedia / Meta Platforms (2024); U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Meta Platforms Inc. (2023-03); Fortune (2026-05) |
| Netflix Read the story → verified | 2024-06 | Whether to soften the Keeper Test framing in the culture memo |
| Soften the firing logic | The original framing was too sharp to live with at scale | Latest · 2024-06 policies retained: The unlimited-vacation and 'act in Netflix's best interests' expense policies stayed put. | reversibility high verdict partial | Variety (2024-06) |
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