【The Art of Startup Management】
Management for startups might sound counterintuitive, but knowing how to effectively onboard, train, and retain your employees while balancing out good processes for projects will make a world of difference to you as a founder and to your startup. Many founders will try to put off managing their startup because it’s a well-known fact that bureaucracies can kill a company since they utilize poor management techniques. However, underperformance can also occur when founders resist switching to a more structured management approach and adopting management systems and processes in a timely way.
When do founders realize they need to make this transition and adopt management systems and processes to facilitate growth? Most founders will realize this after working for big corporates in the past, and will implement some work structures to make processes more efficient right from the get-go. Others might find that things are too chaotic and are forced to implement management practices in order to smooth down processes and align goals.
Some of the management roles that founders can play is (1) making goals explicit and stable; (2) helping with coordination and planning the sequence of steps; (3) facilitating decision-making and resource allocation; and (4) promoting accountability and facilitating control. As you can see, none of these roles require micro-managing or “bureaucracies”, and instead focus on how to create a process that the team can rally around. For example, instead of nitpicking on what your team is or isn’t doing right, you can lead them by making goals explicit and judging performance based on their ability to work towards the goals.
Join us tomorrow to hear more about how to effectively manage your startup team! Our speaker is Mike Calcagno, who built up Cortana and worked at Microsoft for 17 years before moving to Taiwan to start his own startup as well as to become the advisor to Taiwan AI Labs.
If you’re an AI or Blockchain startup, we’re now accepting applications for AW#19 >> http://bit.ly/2VGK3Ez
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【管理不彰不會發生在新創?】
身為一個新創 Founder,你可能會覺得你不會陷入「大公司」常見的管理不彰的問題,但其實這種問題在任何公司都可能發生,透過了解你的員工和提高自我認知可以讓整個公司運作得更有效率。
所有的員工都希望自己的老闆是全心全意相信公司的願景的,身為一個 Founder,隨著時間拉長,想法和做法當然會調整或是更加成熟,但是長遠的最終目標應該不會改變,如果 Founder 的目標會不停改變,那員工也會很困惑、很難跟著相信。Lean Startup 的作者 Eric Ries 就說過:「Pivot 是策略上的改變,不是公司願景的改變。」
當你有了自己的願景,在找團隊和夥伴的時候就會比較容易溝通。徵才對於大多數的新創來說都是極大的挑戰,花時間、花人力但卻不一定可以獲得預期的效果,找錯人還可能帶給公司負面的影響。然而,有了明確的願景,讓你可以更容易和有理想抱負的求職應徵者溝通。
當你有了好的團隊,了解他們加入你的原因和他們想追求的職涯發展是你的重要任務。對於種子階段的新創來說,不需要追求制式的規定,所以你會有比較多的彈性,像是可以提供更多休假和遠端工作。但當你的團隊越來越大,你就必須要設定一些制度來讓公司可以運作得更順暢。
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As a founder, you might not think that you’ll fall into the “big company” trap of poor company culture due to bad management practices, but these kinds of problems can seep into any startup if you’re not careful. For a startup founder, knowing your employees well and having good self-awareness will help you lead effectively.
All employees want a founder that has a strong belief in the company vision. As a founder, ideas might change but the ultimate end-goal shouldn’t, and employees will lose faith in a founder that keeps changing the vision whenever the startup decides to pivot. “A pivot is a change in strategy, not vision,” says Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup.
Once you have your vision set, it’ll be an easier time to recruit new players to join your team. Recruiting is one of the biggest headaches for any startup founder because it takes up so much time and resources, and doing it wrong can lead to disastrous results. However, having a vision will allow you the opportunity to sell it to candidates who want to be able to rally behind a leader with a clear strategy and goal.
Now that you have a strong team, it’s time to show a genuine interest in what they want and are looking for working in a startup. For seed-stage startups, it’s harder for bureaucracy to creep in so you have more flexibility to, for example, give more vacation time or the option to work remotely. As you grow larger though, you need to learn to adapt to the many needs of your different employees while juggling performance of your product or service.
To learn more about how to effectively manage your startup, join us this Thursday for our monthly AI meetup! We’re also now accepting applications for AW#19, if you’re an AI or Blockchain startup you can apply here >> http://bit.ly/2W1pWQU
By Sandi Wu and 林楓 (Natalie Lin), AppWorks Analysts