Is Fear Stopping You from Starting a Company? Sete dicas para retomar o prazer pelo trabalho A sensação de que o sentimento de prazer pelo que se faz é algo previsível na carreira de muitos profissionais de TI. A natureza da demanda nesse tipo de trabalho, somado à falta de respeito e confiança das demais áreas leva muitos executivos a lamentar sua atual situação. Atualmente, cresce o número de profissionais de TI insatisfeitos. E isso tem uma relação direta com a recente crise internacional, a qual obrigou os gestores da área de tecnologia a lidar com um dos mais tediosos trabalhos nessa função: cortar custos. A seguir, acompanhe as principais dicas que os próprios CIOs dão para fugir dessa rotina tediosa da TI e voltar a se sentir motivados pelo trabalho. 1. A fórmula tem sido utilizada pelo diretor global de TI da consultoria Accenture, Mark Cobb. 2. Um diretor de TI de uma empresa pública norte-americana notou que ele saiu do marasmo da sua função quando criou decidiu reinventar seu departamento. 3. “Sempre procuro ter um ou dois projetos de estimação em andamento. 4. 5. 6.
Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month by In the last post I beat you to death about ditching your business plan but failed to provide an alternative. Okay okay, “Planning == Bad,” but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what’s worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. To help you, I’m stealing a trick from therapists. Cartoon by Andertoons Therapists don’t tell you what to do. You’re smart. That’s where this article comes in: To splash cold water on your face, forcing you to face reality and continue to defend or change the important choices inside your business. What follows is your startup therapy session. In one sentence, what does your product do and who buys it? Cartoon by AndertoonsThe first thing this does is force you to nail down your monthly expenses and accounts payable. What tips do you have? To help you, I’m stealing a trick from therapists.
Você conhece o perfil dos seus funcionários? Nesses anos de trabalho atuando diretamente com gestão de pessoas, as reclamações mais clássicas que ouço de diretores, gerentes e gestores são relacionadas à comunicação com seus times. A dificuldade em repassar informações e delegar responsabilidades para os seus liderados de forma clara e objetiva, é um dos maiores problemas enfrentados por gestores de qualquer empresa. E isso não se resume apenas a maneira de falar ou de se expressar com seus liderados, mas também na forma como o gestor irá distribuir as responsabilidades na sua equipe de acordo com os skills de cada um de seus liderados. Isso parece bastante óbvio, mas você conhece o perfil de cada um dos seus funcionários? Um dos modelos mais adotados, que em minha opinião é o mais fácil de ser compreendido e aplicado na prática, é o modelo de dominância cerebral de Ned Herrmann[1], que classifica as pessoas em quatro estilos comportamentais básicos. O AnalíticoPara essa pessoa, a palavra de ordem é objetividade.
Founders: You don’t own your employees [Ed. note: This is in response to a post by David Hauser entitled, "The Startup Side Project Bubble" which you can read here: So many founders forget something simple: You do not own your employees. They are human beings with their own passions, interests and lives. You have a vision of a reality you want to create. After much labor and hard work to get it off the ground, either funding or your own revenue allows you to hire help. In David’s post he argues that employees having side projects is bad for them and his business. First, telling someone what they should and shouldn’t do in their free time is a tremendous insult to them and their personal judgment. You want employees with side projects. Especially for the creators at a startup (ie- the people that design and build your product), there is tremendous benefit to them having side projects. Experimentation. And I’m sure there are others. Great employees are a package deal. “Why don’t you quit your job already?”
14 Revealing Signs You Love Your Startup Job You may not be frequently giving out an embarrassingly gushing smile and you might not write little love notes during your lunch break. But, there are ways to tell if you love your job. Of course, no job is perfect -- even the best of relationships have their down days. We all have to do things we don’t like. I love working at HubSpot, it's the best job I've ever had (but, that's by design). But, even I have “off” days where I'm not spending all my time doing things I absolutely love. So all of the following may not be the case all of the time. 1. “I hear Michelle has really improved our customer happiness scores.” or “I’d love to know how Mike managed to rescue that sale.” When you love your job you don’t gossip about the personal failings of others. 2. When you love your job it’s like peeling an onion. When you hate your job it’s also like peeling an onion – but all you discover are more tears. 3. They aren't numbers. 4. When you love your job, it’s a part of your life. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Keirsey Temperament 10 Things I, As a Developer, Wish More Entrepreneurs Knew A few weeks ago, Stephen Anderson wrote a piece entitled “29 Things I, as a designer, wish more tech startups knew.” It is a bold contribution to a greater discussion of building better startups. I’m David Pierce, one of the developers at Startup Weekend, and I love studying developer teams in young companies and seeing what we can learn about building better companies. Like Stephen, I’ve taken my own experiences and conversations with other developers and listed a few thoughts on what entrepreneurs should know about developers as they look to create successful companies together. Know how developers work: There are some common elements of a work environment that make developers feel productive. Be careful to avoid making your development team feel like “code monkeys.” I’m sure I could spend so much more time writing about building a good developer team.