movementculturestartup Inspired by https://michaelnotebook.com/df/index.html
Basically I just ran a “what would an awesome founder look like” simulation in my head, and here’s what I got.
- Takes ideation very seriously because innovating and ideation is critical at every level.
- Follows How to generate novel insights seriously
- great People Skills; really good at inspiring other people
- Good at spotting and recruiting top talent, builds good Social Infrastructure for Sparkly People
- innovates fast and consistently
- builds this into the cultures that he creates
- active tools for providing anonymous feedback, people are incentivized to give helpful feedback/ideas, people are given days/weeks off to explore their own ideas, monthly hackathons
- there’s a sense of “hacking with your friends” that leads to experimentation and ideas
- creative freedom for the devs, and an emphasis on devs deciding what they do (this is IMO a major problem with a lot of companies. I don’t think the job of a dev should be to just put into reality decisions made by business people. Ideally, devs decide, design, and implement themselves in a creative loop.)
- builds this into the cultures that he creates