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Every Worker Should Be C.E.O. of Something
- sown 17y agoOn the surface, it has all the makings of a neat sitcom episode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promotion_%28The_Office%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promotion_%28The_Office%29 To spoil it for you, the Oscar character summarizes it as: "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the popes."
- dondemarco 17y agoThis is success bias at work. Victors write history and can say whatever they want! Mark Pincus has accomplished a lot and duly deserves credit but it doesn't mean we should lap up his lessons from the soccer pitch as the secret sauce for success in business. A team with no bad people is better than a team of stars? Common now! Sounds like what you'd find in a stodgy corporation not a successful startup!
- pmichaud 17y agoThis has been my approach--I'm not pinkus, but the individuals on the teams I've run have all had specific areas of responsibility over which they have absolute control. In that area, I was their assistant and nothing more.