Working with Human Dimension Companies

Fred’s latest article on Things you learn when working on a team, part 1 is a very interesting view on going from a one man operation into a team-based company.

I particularly agree and like with this two parts:

I ran everything by myself. I did a lot of design, a lot of development, and some consulting work. [...] However, that doesn’t compare to the possibilities that become available when you’re working with more people - particularly when they’re experts in things of a complementary nature to what you do. Having real-time input to the building process is priceless.

As Thomas points out being ahead can be very lonely activity.

Another interesting part is The realization that people have lives.

Strongly attached to the fact that happy (and passionate) people do far better work is the realization that people have their own private lives to attend to, and that sometimes (more often than not) private life can influence both the teams’ spirit and its productivity. Naturally there’s very little that can be done to avoid these situations, so the key is to understand and work around them.

I completely agree. I just got the book Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big (Amazon.co.uk) since it’s a subject I’m interested. Human dimension companies.

April 13, 2006 |