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Buzz, Buzz - Fly on the Wall
September 26, 2006
Last weekend I got together with some employees from an old job I had 9 years ago. It was a lot of fun, but somewhat shocking for me.
Out of everyone, I was the only one that became a business owner. However, they still did not think of me as one of them. The end result was that I got to sit there and listen to lots of comments I found shocking. They were upset the business owners got paid more. They were upset that clients were difficult to work with. They were very money oriented and thought they deserved more.
The one thing that stood out the most was project management. They praised people and businesses that had good project management and they reviled those that had poor project management. It was clear after a couple of hours that project management was the single biggest contributor to their happiness in their job. They called good project managers geniuses and they called bad project managers asses.
Even outside of technology, management is clearly the single biggest factor in employee happiness. And happy employees are more likely to create buzz about you.
At my party, I quickly knew which local tech companies were good and bad by how everyone talked about their managers.
If you were a fly on the wall, what would your employees say about you?
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Getting Beyond “Management”
Ron McDaniel has an interesting post about a recent get-together he had with a group of former co-workers. Ron mentions in the post that he was the only one of the nine former employees that had gone on to start…
Good post Ron but you can’t expect employees to understand the RISKs associated with business ownership. It all looks so easy to them and they just expect every 2 weeks there will be a pay check for them.
As for project management, this is what we do day in and day out. And we’ve done it the same way for the last 5 years, functioning kind of on an as needed basis. Your ideas have made me realize I need to pay more attention to how we manage this process and the roles our employees play in it. Thanks.