I admire Jason Fried, co-founder of 37 signals (37signals.com) a lot. His management theories are very simple to understand and hence easy to follow. They taste bitter for people who have been following astronomical, corporate lessons.
I have been lately working on a couple of consulting assignments, helping customers to strategize their BI landscape. I have taken up this principle not to give my customers too much of "visioning" masala and keep the strategy as simple and as worldly as possible. No bloat. Just give them what is required and what is implementable. My experiment gave me 50% success rate. But it gave me a 100% success rate in identifying a lot of irrational jackasses around me. How? Simple. They just couldn't understand simple things. When things were complicated and swollen, they loved it. When things were simple, they hated it. So what do you do with such blockheads? Ignore them? No. You can't. They are all around you.
Fire them? No. You can't. They are the heap in the organization.
Love them? No. You can't. You are smart and you will naturally hate them.
I decided to let them know they are imbecile, straight on their face. I decided to hurt their ego. I decided to make them feel that they are adding spam to the conversations. In this process, I was perceived to be arrogant. Who cares?
I have been lately working on a couple of consulting assignments, helping customers to strategize their BI landscape. I have taken up this principle not to give my customers too much of "visioning" masala and keep the strategy as simple and as worldly as possible. No bloat. Just give them what is required and what is implementable. My experiment gave me 50% success rate. But it gave me a 100% success rate in identifying a lot of irrational jackasses around me. How? Simple. They just couldn't understand simple things. When things were complicated and swollen, they loved it. When things were simple, they hated it. So what do you do with such blockheads? Ignore them? No. You can't. They are all around you.
Fire them? No. You can't. They are the heap in the organization.
Love them? No. You can't. You are smart and you will naturally hate them.
I decided to let them know they are imbecile, straight on their face. I decided to hurt their ego. I decided to make them feel that they are adding spam to the conversations. In this process, I was perceived to be arrogant. Who cares?
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