Seems a bit obsessed with terminology. Also many of the points in this post seem difficult to achieve especially for a company with a focus on "shipping" example:
"Freedom:
Freedom to pick when and where they work. How they work and on what they work on. Tethering people down and expecting them not to behave like a lion taken from the wild and stuck in a cage. Just as the lion will begin to mindlessly graze around their cage staring at the window wishing they were free your employees will graze mindlessly around the office and stare and videos on youtube wishing they were free to."
This is hopelessly optimistic, if you're on a deadline sometimes you need people in one place.
"A Leader will make the Team Members goals align with their own."
What if one of my goals is to earn a competitive salary and the leader's goal is to avoid paying me more? What if my goal is to have a life outside the company and not to have my life revolve around the company and its "culture" and its "community"? Why should the employees' goals change to meet the company's needs and not vice versa?
It sounds like this whole article is about how to trick gullible employees into accepting a smaller salary than they could get by moving to the company across the street.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 28.3 ms ] threadFreedom to pick when and where they work. How they work and on what they work on. Tethering people down and expecting them not to behave like a lion taken from the wild and stuck in a cage. Just as the lion will begin to mindlessly graze around their cage staring at the window wishing they were free your employees will graze mindlessly around the office and stare and videos on youtube wishing they were free to."
This is hopelessly optimistic, if you're on a deadline sometimes you need people in one place.
What if one of my goals is to earn a competitive salary and the leader's goal is to avoid paying me more? What if my goal is to have a life outside the company and not to have my life revolve around the company and its "culture" and its "community"? Why should the employees' goals change to meet the company's needs and not vice versa?
It sounds like this whole article is about how to trick gullible employees into accepting a smaller salary than they could get by moving to the company across the street.