When I was at ESPN.com, everyone on my team took turns carrying a pager for a week every two months. The pager would beep if there was a “website emergency” (a phrase my pharmaceutical sales rep girlfriend and her doctor clients chuckled at) such as a broken data feed, or if an editor had […]
Entries from May 2007
The Best Way To Motivate Your People
May 13th, 2007 by Kareem · 7 Comments
Tags: motivation · alfie kohn · compensation · gratitude · appreciation · money · thanks
How to Get Your People to Accept Decisions They Don’t Like
May 6th, 2007 by Kareem · 5 Comments
Back when I was at ESPN, I had a discussion with a senior manager about how decisions were often made at a senior level and then passed down as gospel, but that happened without the reasoning behind the decision. Since the people ESPN hired at all levels were pretty smart, a lot of second-guessing […]
Tags: digg · fair process · decision making
“How-To” Seminars Given by Democratic Company on West-Coast
May 4th, 2007 by Kareem · No Comments
If you live in Seattle, LA, or the Bay Area, you might want to attend the Holacracy seminar being run by the folks who run Ternary Software. Holacracy is
a complete system for organizational governance and culture at the leading edge
that promises to answer questions like:
What if we questioned all of our most […]