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For Startups, Joel Spolsky’s Management Model is Mostly Wrong

For Startups, Joel Spolsky’s Management Model is Mostly Wrong

By Bob Warfield on February 13, 2012

I read with interest Joel Spolsky’s guest post over on A VC.  It’s all about how he sees the hardcore command and control model as the wrong model for startups and that it has been wrongly emphasized by highly autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs.  As an alternative, he advocates inverting the hierarchical pyramid so that […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged empowerment, Joel Spolsky, Leadership, Management, startups, Steve Jobs | 1 Response

Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT?

Putting Personal Choice into Enterprise IT?

By Michael Fauscette on April 10, 2011

Corporate IT is about standardization, control, governance, compliance, IP protection and enterprise security not about personal choice and empowerment, or at least it was. There’s a growing movement though towards employee empowerment and personal. Now admittedly some of the movement…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, choice, device, empowerment, iPad, iPhone, mobile, Smartphone, tablet, Web 2.0, Windows Phone 7

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