Lessons from Applying the HP Way to Startups
The question is a little bit more detailed explanation of how the HP way can be applied in the startup environment, and of all the HP way values, what tend to work, and what, not as well. They do three-day seminars on subjects like that. And for me, I just focused.. I think if you get the book written by Dave Packard, a very small book called "The HP Way," there were seven or eight values in there. I just picked one or two, and I blended it in one area, which I find, work again and again, is fundamentally give the employees respect, dignity. And associated with that, trust, so that they feel empowered to go out and innovate. And through that process, kick off the passionate part of the brain, and from then on, it’s kind of uncontrollable. You get the energy, all of that. And the reason that I think that it worked very well is that because people are people, whether you work in a startup, whether you're in a large company. If you go down to that level of psychology, there's no difference. The thing that I found--I have my scars on my back as well--that in the old HP way, that in the execution of that, that has less tolerance in the outside of HP environment is how much time you give, when they want to ... obviously, you want to give them a longer and longer rope. But if it doesn't work out, how do you. The feedback cycle. I think, at least in the HP that I left, we tend to give people too much benefit of the doubt. If somebody. Then, well, try this, try that. And what you find, in a startup environment, since time is such a big sense, and you don't have the inertia to carry you for mistakes. The flip side of being able to go fast is, when you tank, you tank. There's no inertia. And so one of my first errors, and I remember that was after I left HP, and I know I want to do a small startup, but at that point in time, I was managing thousands of people. And I don't want to jump to as many as 30 people. So I choose an environment that I manage as a small...
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