Management by Community
At the Spigit Customer Summit, Gary Hamel described an innovative management approach that has stuck with me. W.L. Gore management has a hands-off approach to managing employees. Each employee is free to say ‘no’ to any request by a colleague. That’s right. Refuse to do something a colleague asks. Damn, that sounds pretty good, doesn’t [...]
Follow up and close out of the Month of Startup Hades
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Things are finally starting to return to normal, we had a bumper crop of sales over the last week, and got our internal problems solved. What is interesting is that rather than “go be your creative best” the leadership style had to change over to completely authoritative, here is [...]
Day Two of Startup Hades
Looking for inspiration by reading Marcello’s and Andy’s blogs today. If you do not know, Marcello owned Sampa, and Andy Sack owned Judy’s book. Sampa closed on August 15th, and Judy’s book closed over a year ago, but both are prolific bloggers and have also documented their experiences. Where I am at right now is [...]
A Month of Fail – Lessons in Startup Management
Image by lumaxart via Flickr Ever had one of those exceptional months were you have not only caught the fail boat, but threw a fail boat party and no one else showed up? This is the world of failure, deep hard core failure that you have to step back from many of the things you [...]
