Archive For The “Operations” Category
Might compensation games be distorting the entire US economy? I wrote last week about my belief that using money to motivate people was a bad idea. As a leader of a company, you need to figure out a fair compensation scheme, but you shouldn’t try to also use it as a source of getting people [...]
Compensation systems are small-scale wicked problems: They operate on groups of people, it’s difficult to run independent trials, the system changes with everything you do, unintended consequences are easy to achieve, and it’s hard to judge success. But if you’re the leader of a company you have no choice but to wrestle with this problem. [...]
Showing a visitor around the Atomic Object office recently shifted my perspective in a useful way. The main floor of our office is approximately 2500 ft2 — not huge, but plenty big enough to be chopped into rooms and halls and private offices. When I show visitors around, I sometimes start with a little joke [...]
