35. Companies arenât families
When companies say theyâre a family, itâs a veiled way of demanding total sacrifice. Nights, weekends, whatever it takes for, you know, âthe familyâ. But great companies arenât fake families â theyâre allies of real families. They donât eat into peopleâs personal time, they donât ask people to dial-in during vacations, and they donât push them to work Sundays to prep for the meeting on Monday.
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- Start here
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- An obligation to independence
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- Work isnât war
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- Small teams
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- Profit motive
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- Err on the side of do
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- Shape Up every six
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- We donât sell you
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- 8/8/8
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- NOTASAP
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- The Fortune 5,000,000
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- Donât emulate the office
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- Hours arenât equal
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- On repeat
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- Meetings arenât free
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- Bury the hustle
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- The trap of marginal thinking
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- Politicking
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- Two tokens of customer service
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- Pay people, not addresses
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- Small tech
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- Know no
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- Stayups
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- Thoughting vs. thinking
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- Fixed
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- Disagree and commit
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- Kick in the face, kick in the ass
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- Broadly speaking
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- Shots on goals
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- JOMO not FOMO
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- Miscommunication problems
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- Easy?
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- Ruby on Rails
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- Planning is guessing
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- Sleep on it
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- Companies arenât families
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- Context > consistency
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- Whatâs in a name?