The piece about the startup working environment currently making the rounds includes several anecdotes of good startup management, e.g. clearly communicating expectations and management intervention with employees who were clearly pushing themselves in an unsustainable fashion.
I’m not linking to it because it’s a non-story. You get all the signal from the phrase “Startups can sometimes be intense work environments. Here’s a startup.”
In the middle there are some anecdotes to support the indictment the author is attempting to make of the culture, e.g. someone was working during their wife’s labor until senior execs stepped in and told them to please log off.
That implies at least two good things about the company to me!
1) Someone cared enough about a fellow employee to escalate to senior management.
2) Senior management cared enough about leading by example re: setting boundaries that they did it in that instance.
1) Someone cared enough about a fellow employee to escalate to senior management.
2) Senior management cared enough about leading by example re: setting boundaries that they did it in that instance.
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