article thumbnail

Is “management by walking around” an outmoded fad?

Berkonomics

One of the CEOs I used to coach started his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. In this age of remote workforces, self–managed contractors and employees, outsourced call centers and development, is this a dying art?

article thumbnail

Is management by walking around an outmoded fad?

Berkonomics

One of the CEOs I coach starts his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. In this age of remote work forces, self–managed contractors and employees, outsourced call centers and development, is this a dying art?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Activities As I went through my 30+ different startup experiences and tried to classify them a bit more, I realized this is very messy stuff. That said, I think it starts with what a laundry list of different kinds of needed technology activities and what the current team can reasonably accomplish.

article thumbnail

To My Wife, On Mother’s Day

Both Sides of the Table

We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. Every classroom drama or school activity we were supposed to be involved with. So today should of course by Wife Appreciation Day as much as Mother’s Day.

Course 323
article thumbnail

Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. In practice that meant that we could once again focus on running our sales and service activities.

article thumbnail

8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Rob is driven to learn.

Tips 365
article thumbnail

The Odd Couple: Angels and Accelerators

Steve Reich

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. But as a community, we have to figure out how Angels can effectively participate in the development of accelerator-based companies. The Angel funding process can be arduous.

Angel 49