This is the summary of my best practices that I learned in the last years building up flinc. I gave this talk several times at SMEs and startups. If you want me to come to your company, please let me know, I'd love to share my knowledge!
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About Michael
Entrepreneur // Company Builder // Making
people happy // Product Manager //
Coder by heart
Keynote speaker // TEDx, IAA, MWC, FuckUp
Night, Rulebreaker Society, 2bAhead ThinkTank
// Named “Top 100 internet personalities in
Germany” by Wirtschaftswoche // Mentor
Traveller // Social Activist // <3 Africa //
My NGO: ImpactWeek.net // Adventurer
9. When you’re good in communicating your vision, people will follow you with passion.
Passionate people are more motivated. More motivation means more happiness. Happy
people achieve more!
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How we hire
- Wrong hiring is the top 1 opportunity
to fuck up your company!
- A people hire A people, B people hire
C people..
- Team hires team, managers only
recommend.
- Smaller world class teams are better
than large teams.
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How we work
- Tue & Fri: Homeoffice
- Wed: Alignment meetings / work in 2 week rhythm
- Kanban (we let Scrum go after 5 years).
- Work where, when, and with what you want (only performance counts)
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These 5 values are the basis of our company culture.
They give us boundaries and make clear which
behaviour is appreciated and what gets criticised.
They show us what is right and what is wrong.
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Core Purpose
Vision
Company OKRs
Team OKRs Team OKRs Team OKRs
Our Core Values & Principles
We had a gap between
our 10 year goal (vision)
and two week goals.
That’s why we needed
an additional layer:
OKRs (Objective and
Key Results)
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How we set goals
- Quarterly! Cascaded: company - team - personal.
- 100% transparent.
- Inspiring and ambitious objectives
- Failure welcome! (as long as we learn from mistakes).
- Not coupled to bonuses!!
- Part of our weekly meetings.
- Quarterly 1on1s.
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How we make decisions
- Everything is urgent. But what is important?
- Common truth: Customer happiness is key.
- Identify core problems (e.g. through customer experience mapping).
- Only work on the biggest problems and the biggest opportunities.
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How we fire
“Which of my people,
if they told me they were leaving
for a similar job at a peer company,
would I fight hard to keep at flinc?”
Managers, if an employee is not on your list,
give him better feedback (don’t fire him)!
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How I told you it is How it really is
The perfect world is not realistic. Actually we
don’t want it, as it means we are standing still.
We need conflicts, as long as they make us
better and are constructive. This is up to you!
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Shit Detector Problem Solver
“The coffee tastes awful!” “The coffee tastes awful - I already ordered
some new beans. Let me know what you think.
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Key Takeaways
- Problems and conflicts are normal, they will never end.
- Keep asking “how can we become better?”
- Take ownership and solve problems!
- —> become a learning organisation
44. Questions? Ideas? Need more inspiration? Contact me:
Michael Hübl
michael.huebl@flincteam.org
Twitter: @m_ic, @flinc
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Six books that inspired me (personal & professional)
- The obstacle is the way (Ryan Holiday)
- A guide to the good life (William B. Irivine)
- How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie)
- Making it right: Product Management for a startup world (Rian van der Merwe)
- Managing for Happiness (Jurgen Apello)
- Badass: Making users awesome (Kathy Sierra)
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View this presentation online at:
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelhuebl/how-flinc-works-best-
practices-after-5-years-of-company-building