How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process

whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.

An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.

Move fast and break things Mark Zuckerberg believes in innovation and he believes there can be no great innovation without great risk. So, in the early days of Facebook, he deployed a shocking motto: Move fast and break things. Did the CEO really want us to break things? I mean, he’s telling us to break things! A motto that shocking forces everyone

MAKING YOURSELF A CEO

Process is how we force alignment when it doesn’t happen naturally. You schedule meetings, you embed systems for tracking and accountability, and you install more managers. But if not implemented properly, process slows down progress. It can be painful, especially as teams that grew up eschewing mandates mature. Nobody likes more obstacles to doing

In my weekly staff meeting, I inserted an agenda item titled “What Are We Not Doing?” Ordinarily in a staff meeting, you spend lots of time reviewing, evaluating, and improving all of the things that you do: build