August 2009
6 posts
Why Few Executives Are Skillful Managers →
Just read this great article over on the Harvard Business blog regarding the main pitfalls that managers experience, along with a straightforward plan for becoming a better team leader.
A couple of thoughts:
1) I would argue that time is THE greatest barrier to becoming a great manager. While many would love to interact more with their team, they simply have too many responsibilities that they...
Just finished the Netflix Culture pres...
I know that process is a dirty word in nearly all creative companies, mostly due to its rigid connotations. I believe that process can be a great guideline, as opposed to a rule; a tool for roadmapping as opposed to “the way things are done.” It just depends on how strictly the parameters are presented.
While Netflix touches on this point (Slide 61), they don’t think of it as a...
