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blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera1
“Getting Real”
August 7, 2008
The smarter, faster, easier way to build Organizations 2.0
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera2
Leadership = Conversations
What is key is not access to the information, but access to the
conversations, taking active part in them.
These are the conversations that will allow us to develop new
capabilities as leaders, to anticipate the future needs of our customers and
to atract the new digital talent required by our organizations.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera3
“Getting Real”Test your ideas in a real
environment, with real customers and real markets.
Don't lose your time. Skip all the stuff that represent real and build the
real thing. Experiment, listen and improve.
Get something real up and running quickly. It's the best way to build
momentum.www.37signals.com/
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera4
Less is moreLess people, less structure, less
instructions, less paperwork, less hierarchy, less predictions
and less meetings and abstractions.
Stick to what's truly essential, to the core of your
business. Less cost of change, less margin of error, less support needs, less
useless explanations.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera5
Time is the key
In the current environment of high competition and accelerated
changes time is the key variable.Launch on time and on
budget; adjust the scope of your idea.
Long term projects are nothing but fantasy, something that keeps you
away from real.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera6
Find the “core” of your ideaTake whatever you think your project
should be and cut it in half. Pare goals down until you're left with the important ones. Cut it in half again:
you got the essential now. That's the “core” of you idea
Stick to what's truly essential. Most good ideas are also simple, not-
so-good ideas are difficult to formulate.
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blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera7
Work in iterationsAccept that decisions are temporary. Make
the call and move on. You'll go back and change that decision later if it doesn't work.
Accept that mistakes will happen and go on. Don't expect to get it right the first time.
Avoid pressure. Let the project grow and speak to you. Let it take form and evolve.
You will take better informed decisions as you go along. The result is real feedback
from your customers, and real guidance on what requires your attention.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera8
Create agile organizationsBuild transparent organizations.
It's about staying small and being fast and flexible, open to change
and innovation.More flexible, more changes
and, definitely, more freedom and more fun.
Less paperwork and formalities, less mass, less fear.
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Foster an innovation culture
Find new ways to deal with future challenges, exploring new avenues
and avoiding the easy answers to problems.
Build a culture that questions the "Status quo" and face challenges
in unusual ways.Create people centric and flexible
organizations, where leadership and innovation is everyone's job.
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Keep the team small Metcalfe's law explains why you have to keep teams as small as possible: the efficiency of the
team is approximately the inverse of the square of the
number of members in the team.In other words: the probability that communication problems happen
in the team grows exponentially as the number of members grow.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera11
Cultivate simplicity as a value
Maybe it's better to simplify a process instead of training the people to face
complexity. Not everyone feels able to have
creative ideas; but everybody can point out something that could be done in a more simple way.As time goes by, the organizations
get used to complexity. They just don't notice it, and tend to increase it.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera12
Resist the temptation of growth
Not all companies need to have thousands of employees, or to reach billions euros in market
capitalization.
Your ideal size could be only ten people, five people or even just
yourself.
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Avoid “passion killers”
Hire happy, enthusiastic people. People who are
passionate about their job.Look for people who are
curious and willing to learn. Don't think you need a tech-
celebrity. A happy yet average employee is better than a
disliked and negative guru.
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera14
Value creation in the Collaboration Era
requires imagination, creativity and passion.
It's about creating new people centric
organizations, where leadership and innovation
is everyone's job.
Jump into the lifeboat!
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera15
We make it real“Less is more” is our guiding
principle.We build easy-to-use low-cost web
products for SMEs and freelance professionals.
We create unique applications that do less things instead of more,
but they do the important ones.We use agile technologies such as
Ruby on Rails to achieve agile and flexible development.
www.aspgems.com
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera16
The book
https://gettingreal.37signals.com/
blog.cabreramc.comJosé Cabrera17
“Getting Real”
August 7, 2008
The smarter, faster, easier way to build Organizations 2.0