Company Culture
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Company Culture
Build honesty into your culture, not transparency.
David • 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Startup Advice
2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights
Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out. This often happens when leaders are hesitant to explicitly give up their own power or when they want to maintain the appearance that the team is a democracy. High-performing teams have clear roles for... See more
Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out. This often happens when leaders are hesitant to explicitly give up their own power or when they want to maintain the appearance that the team is a democracy. High-performing teams have clear roles for... See more
A company isn't a family. Parents don't fire their kids for low performance or furlough them in hard times.
A better vision for a workplace is a community—a place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.
Adam Granttwitter.com
Kevin Scott, now CTO of Microsoft, would ask in candidate interviews: “What do you want your next job to be after this company?” Most of your team members realistically won’t stick with the same company forever. This is even more true as you scale to 20, then 50, then 100 team members and so on. But the best way to empower them to do good work is... See more