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Particularly for knowledge centric organizations:
"For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way."
It makes you wonder how startups manage to even survive, much less grow to become Apples, Microsofts & Googles, once such "mangers" come into the picture.
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What really sent him over the edge, as far as I can tell, was when I related my response to a member of the Harvard faculty who asked me what it was like to watch venture capitalists and professional managers run ArsDigita (I replied "like watching a group of nursery school children who've stolen a Boeing 747 and are now flipping all the switches trying to get it to take off").
Pretty much a version of "The wolf & the mastiff" as the author himself puts it -
"If doing a startup is like rolling a boulder up a hill, then working at Goldman Sachs is like rolling it down the hill: you just have to stay out of the way of the boulder"
Interesting concept of using mobile devices to connect taxis & passengers. The strange bit is that it's tied to the iPhone platform.
Never underestimate the importance of actually meeting & talking to your customers.
Interesting take on Yahoo, and where technology startups should focus on. Also, big money distracts.
A dozen things listed by Scoble ranging from picking the wrong technology to having priorities messed up.
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