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 [...]
The Agile Origins of Project Management 2.0
In my previous post I brought up the topic of enterprise agility. My conclusion was: to be agile and adapt quickly to the ever-changing business environment, you need to be able to blend top-down control with bottom-up agility in a “Ying and Yang” style. I also mentioned the latest research, showing that teams that foster [...]
Gary Hamel on Enterprise 2.0 and the Post-Establishment Age
Last week at the first-ever Spigit Customer Summit, I had a chance to listen to Gary Hamel live. He delivered the keynote for the event, “Inventing Management 2.0.” If you’re a reader of Gary’s blog or his books, you know he’s a big proponent of empowering employees and changing management paradigms. See his 25 Stretch [...]
I have seen the enemy
Earlier this week, I attended a Board dinner for one of my investments. The Board dinner is always one of my favorite parts of the Board meeting ritual. If you are an emerging growth player and have a formal Board, whether venture-backed or not, you should have Board dinners. I say they are one of [...]
Oh, I Want to be a Developer … in Boulder, Colorado
But I am not. Which is why I don’t qualify for this all expenses paid trip to Boulder: And the pitch: Boulder Needs More Kickass Developers Want a FREE trip to beautiful Boulder, Colorado? The Boulder tech scene is growing like crazy. Twenty of our top tech startups (you can see a few in the [...]
Cloudy News from Startup-Land
Just because I wrote How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession doesn’t mean I’m naive enough to declare that all SaaS businesses are recession-proof – they just have a better model to weather the storm, which is now inevitable. VC Preps Portfolio Companies for Survival Mode OM Malik, who is now a VC Partner himself [...]
YLastic has a New Service that Allows you to Manage your Cloud Instances
For fifty bucks a month, YLastic has come out with a great interface to allow you to manage all your cloud computing interfaces on your web site. YLastic is a great new startup in Atlanta that aims to make your experience with AWS more GUI, and easier to understand for those who are used to [...]
