Awesome business organizations
a friendly
talk about company structure and attitude
Who am I?
Game Designer
Flash Developer
Zero marketing guy
Entrepreneur
IxD/UX/IA designer
JavaScript Developer
Bussiness Developer / Growth hacker
a.k.a Generalist :)
6 startup projects, still not a millionaire
and still have to get my Bachelor degree
Now?
&
Level 5 Steam User
"Over the last 4 years, you've spent 289.2 hours playing this selection, which includes 95 items, is valued at $1141.16, and requires 405.4 GB"
Why
this presentation?
I was conducting
a research for companies with
awesome organization
Because
with Camplight we're on the road
of becoming awesome
and
I wanted to share
some of the wisdom acquired
with 1 week of research :)
Being part of something
cool is outdated
Try to be part
of something "awesome"!
coined "Open allocation"
Lets start with
GitHub
building social coding product
... the awesome way
their organization is
ASYNCHRONOUS
work on what they want
work where they want
work when they want
in
Teams
(153 chat rooms)
they always
Optimize for happiness
which is giving them
flexibility
no managers (only PRP) - no deadlines
no meetings - no workhours
they
Work like Open Source
using GitHub to build GitHub
Pull Requests
are discussions
that improve
code quality
Distributed
tools are the office
Biggest challenges
Over commitment
Signal vs. Noise
Opinion overload
Valve's
Same story
flat, output oriented
Excessive focus
on hiring
on T-shaped individuals
with selective hiring you get multidisciplinary teams
the Cabals are task-oriented groups
flat structure gives you freedom
with freedom each person can
have different roles
(and not be bored to death)
Earning money is based on value creation
another awesomely organized company
they consider meetings as toxic waste
only when it hurts
distribution is the king
proactive culture
Didn't find any weaknesses of their model
I guess they're awesome at everything :D
There are
a lot more!
W.L. Gore & Associates
A team-based, flat lattice organization
8000+ strong, you may know them because of Gore-Tex
Supercell
Transparent, feedom based
game dev company
ngenworks
Transparent, distributed, decentralized, collaborative, egoless jellyfish :D
Automattic
best known for creating WordPress
using P2 theme for communication
Wiredcraft
French, American, Korean, Chinese and Finnish team forming a transparent organization
Treehouse
a VC backed startup with open allocation business style
projects - primary unit of work
communication - based on urgency
Enspiral
network of flat, transperant companies working together to create a thriving society
Hackerspaces
around the world!
being awesome organization is based on values
not following policies
www.initlab.org (Sofia)
www.varnalab.org (Varna)
www.hackafe.org (Plovdiv)
http://burgaslab.org/ (Burgas)
Camplight :D
an awesome lifestyle organization focused on software development and design
So what do all of them have in common?
Introducing the "awesome business organization" framework :D
Transparent
don't hide anything within the organization
Distributed
use internet and other webapps as tools
Decentralized
don't have an office space
Flat
don't have managers
everyone is the same except their role
Open
Embrace the mindset
Freedom
collaborate, don't delegate
in general
value trust, collaboration,
egoless individuals and leadership
forget corporate thinking
and don't suffocate in the
"old ways"
Case study with
Facts & figures till dec. 2013
over 16 members,
self-funded,
partnership network with over 7 partners,
founded 2 years ago,
some of them open source
over 110k EUR turnover
Challenges we experienced to become awesome
making decisions,
communal funds,
branding,
social impact,
doing things that matter,
tools,
scaling
Any questions?
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