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The flickr people were pretty good at this. I was less so. One thing that always bugged me - when I ran Delicious, I had people submit a weekly status update (
by joshu 16y ago
The flickr people were pretty good at this. I was less so.
One thing that always bugged me - when I ran Delicious, I had people submit a weekly status update (just a list of bullet points) to the entire company. That way everyone knew what was going on.
We got to Yahoo, and my boss decided to kill that.
When I got to Google, globally visible weekly status in bullet point form are part of the culture. I take this as validation.
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- robryan 16y agoWhat's the accountability like? If in delicious case if it is to be shut down, do the execs/managers responsible for it get some kind of penalty or is it business as usual where the blame can be passed to any number of other things for poor performance?
- joshu 16y agoNo. There was no corporate memory at all.
- rdl 16y agoIt does sound like your boss was a particular low point, even for Yahoo.