> A familial company like ours runs on trust rather than authoritarian rule. Maybe a few people take advantage of our flextime and our "let my people go surfing

> A familial company like ours runs on trust rather than authoritarian rule. Maybe a few people take advantage of our flextime and our "let my people go surfing" policy, but none of our best employees would want to work in a company that didn't have that trust. I recently went to a talk by Warren Robinett, creator of Adventure for the Atari 2600. One of the audience questions was, "what was the work environment like at Atari under Nolan Bushnell?" He discussed how little structure there was at Atari. His boss thought Adventure was a waste of time, but he was allowed to choose how he spent his time, and he chose to work on it anyways. At a stricter company, the game would never have been made. Though, he did specifically mention he felt that the guy who skipped out to go surfing every Wednesday was kind of abusing the freedom.