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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book could have been titled "Microserfs, twenty years later". Scott Berkun, a former Microsoftie himself, tells the story of his year working at Wordpress/Automattic, a successful software as a service startup run by the prodigy Matt Mullenweg. While Berkun's fawning over Mullenweg becomes grating rather quickly, the story about Berkun's entry into this virtual global company is told with aplomb. Much of the internal communication relies on a stream of team and company blogs as well as IRC and Skype. Given the video capabilities of Skype, though the company is composed mostly of males, I doubt whether the titular claim of "The Year Without Pants" is even partially true. Mullenweg requested Berkun's service to create the first level of middle managers/team leaders at Automattic, up to then run by direct interaction with the founder. This meant that issues not focused on by Mullenweg were allowed to drift (e.g. Wordpress did not fix a broken LinkedIn connection for many months). Creating areas of responsibilities and fixed teams helped transform the startup company into a more stable business. Like so many accounts (and also novels), a lot of the book is spent on getting to know the people and forming the team. Unfortunately, the reader is not told a single management decision where a difficult trade-off had to be made. It's all about being captain in mild and beautiful weather. The necessity for the middle management layer (and its effectiveness) is thus not demonstrated. An additional 50 pages treating management issues is sadly missing from this book. Hasta la vista comes all too soon. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A behind-the-scenes look at the firm behind WordPress.com and the unique work culture that contributes to its phenomenal success50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software. The force behind WordPress.com is a convention-defying company called Automattic, Inc., whose 120 employees work from anywhere in the world they wish, barely use email, and launch improvements to their products dozens of times a day. With a fraction of the resources of Google, Amazon, or Facebook, they have a similar impact on the future of the Internet. How is this possible? What's different about how they work, and what can other companies learn from their methods?To find out, former Microsoft veteran Scott Berkun worked as a manager at WordPress.com, leading a team of young programmers developing new ideas. The Year Without Pants shares the secrets of WordPress.com's phenomenal success from the inside. Berkun's story reveals insights on creativity, productivity, and leadership from the kind of workplace that might be in everyone's future. Offers a fast-paced and entertaining insider's account of how an amazing, powerful organization achieves impressive results Includes vital lessons about work culture and managing creativity Written by author and popular blogger Scott Berkun (scottberkun.com) The Year Without Pants shares what every organization can learn from the world-changing ideas for the future of work at the heart of Automattic's success"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Throughout the course of the book he comes up with some solid truisms:
1. Results trump tradition. This is born out by the fact that WordPress goes against just about every organizational tradition there is and build a successful company anyway. The reason is two-fold- people who work their trust each other and they have the same goals. This overcomes any lack of structure.
2.If you hire great people, one of the most important things a leader can do is stay out of the way. The author leads a team for a year and only checks in weekly with many of them, yet the accomplish a great deal.
3. Working remotely has drawbacks. He regularly writes about the lack of social cues when all of your communication is via text and Skype. While he thinks it can work for some companies (like WordPress) he admits that it has limitations. Some things need presence to work best.
Overall an interesting book that has some implications beyond the business world. If more and more firms start using this model, the academic world will need to change to better support it. ( )