The Most Important Decision
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Transcript of The Most Important Decision
Lunch and Learn
The Most Important Decision Presented by:Amin Palizban, CEO, 7Geese
MOST IMPORTANT DECISION
“The most important decision we can make is
whether we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
From that one decision all others spring.”
Do we live in a friendly or hostile universe?
IMPLICATION OF OUR DECISION
Hostile: Create walls and weapons using our resources and technology.
Neither Friendly nor Hostile: Universe is random. Life has no purpose.
Universe is Friendly: Collaborate, use technology & resources to understand.
MOST IMPORTANT DECISION AT 7GEESE
For the purposes of 7Geese and everything we do
here, we are deciding that the universe is friendly.
This is the foundation of all other decisions.
Caveat: We are still a tech company, not blind, will
lock our doors, and rely on data and facts.
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FRIENDLY: TEAM CUSTOMERS USERS VENDORS COMPETITORS !
1. Purpose, Beliefs, Strategy
2. Marketing, Sales, & Support
3. Product & Engineering
4. Company Operations
5. Q & A
in a friendly universe
PURPOSE, BELIEF, & STRATEGY
PURPOSE, BELIEF, & STRATEGY
Purpose: Providing technology products and tools to help people
reach their potential.
Belief: People are intrinsically motivated to perform their best when
organization has completing vision, objectives, and culture of support.
Core Values: Having high standards, Being Hungry to Learn, Making it
Happen, and Demonstrating Passion
Control
Industrial Revolution
Rigid Orgs
Corporate Ladder
Gen X
Management
Culture
Information Age
Agile Workforce
Taking Ownership
Millennials
Coaching
PURPOSE AND BELIEF
PURPOSE AND BELIEF
Source: Inc. Magazine - Traits
of True Leaders
SALES, MARKETING, SUPPORTin a friendly universe
MARKETING, SALES, & SUPPORT
Education: Educating our audience about the friendly universe with
blogs, webinars, videos, tutorials, blogs, and the product itself.
Generosity: Giving as much value we can without attachment to results.
Having affordable pricing. (Adam Grant - Power of Generosity)
Community: Creating our own community (users, customers, team,
advocates) and nurturing it.
Things we won’t do: Aggressive sales, interruption-based marketing,
paid marketing, and anything that doesn’t add value to people.
PRODUCT & ENGINEERINGin a friendly universe
PRODUCT & ENGINEERING
Valuable: Enabling users, managers, and admins to be successful and
unleash their potential. Add value right away and more over-time.
Easy-to-use: Being easy to use, easy to rollout, fast, simple, and
accessible from different devices. In app training and guides.
Integrations & APIs: Integrate with other tools people use and
enabling people to build their own applications. Data portability.
Things we won’t do: Patents, locking people, developing too much
administrative features, and copying competitors.
COMPANY OPERATIONin a friendly universe
COMPANY OPERATION
People: Supporting, building alliance, unleashing potential, having high
expectations, paying market rates, great recruiting, and graceful departures.
Management: Self-management, peer accountability, decentralization,
holacracy, transparency, ownership, balancing results with values.
Flexibility: Flexible work schedule, work-life integration, unlimited
vacations, and giving back to company more than we take.
Things we won’t do: Hiring people that don’t exhibit core values, having
too much hierarchy and admin, and taking value from the company.
DECISION TO LIVE IN A FRIENDLY WORLD
Helping our users and ourselves grow
Driving business results
Adding value to the world
Q & A
THANKS FOR LEARNING!
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