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A behind-the-scenes have a look at the agency behind WordPress.com and the distinctive work tradition that contributes to its phenomenal success
50 million web sites, or twenty p.c of the whole internet, use WordPress software program. The drive behind WordPress.com is a convention-defying firm referred to as Automattic, Inc., whose 120 staff work from anyplace on the earth they need, barely use e mail, and launch enhancements to their merchandise dozens of occasions a day. With a fraction of the sources of Google, Amazon, or Fb, they’ve the same influence on the way forward for the Web. How is that this potential? What’s completely different about how they work, and what can different firms study from their strategies?
To search out out, former Microsoft veteran Scott Berkun labored as a supervisor at WordPress.com, main a staff of younger programmers growing new concepts. The 12 months With out Pants shares the secrets and techniques of WordPress.com’s phenomenal success from the within. Berkun’s story reveals insights on creativity, productiveness, and management from the type of office that is perhaps in everybody’s future.
- Affords a fast-paced and entertaining insider’s account of how a tremendous, highly effective group achieves spectacular outcomes
- Consists of very important classes about work tradition and managing creativity
- Written by creator and standard blogger Scott Berkun (scottberkun.com)
The 12 months With out Pants shares what each group can study from the world-changing concepts for the way forward for work on the coronary heart of Automattic’s success.
Q&A with Scott Berkun, creator of The 12 months With out Pants
You discuss having the correct quantity of “friction” – and that “few managers get it proper.” But one particular person’s friction is one other particular person’s combat. How can a supervisor engineer “wholesome” friction?
The ebook particulars how I managed one staff searching for the suitable stability. Most administration books are all principle – it is uncommon to learn an actual supervisor, of an actual staff, really making an attempt to make all of it work. Extra so than any principle, studying properly written accounts of how actual managers handle does greater than piles of principle books in serving to managers see what’s potential and the way it’s alleged to work.