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They never really said how they manage this, or whether they wrote it down. What ways of keeping people on the same page are most effective?
by DTrejo 16y ago
They never really said how they manage this, or whether they wrote it down. What ways of keeping people on the same page are most effective?
- cschep 16y agoGreat question, also it would be fun to hear about what "page" they ended up on. They have an incredible service that I love using, so what did they decide to actively NOT do?
- bobf 16y agoIf you haven't already, take a look into Zappos and Tony Hsieh for great insights into conveying company culture.
- brown9-2 16y agoTo elaborate: in "Delivering Happiness" Tony talks about how Zappos goes as far as publishing a real Zappos Culture book each year, containing stories from hundreds of employees/partners/vendors about what Zappos the company means to them. The book is a great read - amazing how well they've institutionalized the idea of a company culture and methos for holding onto it as they grow.
- subwindow 16y agoI have a feeling it was mostly accidental. Having a bunch of awesome people increases the likelihood of it happening, but I don't think that is a very repeatable lesson.
- werrett 16y agoHaving a bunch of awesome people increases the likelihood of it happening... I'd hazard a guess and say the non-repeatability comes down to the awesome bit. It is easy to label someone as awesome after coming out on the good side of a rough patch. It is much harder to be comfortable in that label when sizing up a potential co-founder.
- derefr 16y agoIf you assume the set-equivalence that "awesome people get on the same page quickly" implies that "people who get on the same page quickly are awesome", you then find, by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem, that "awesome" means rational. The question is whether the assumption holds :)