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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: If you want independent employees, hire people you can genuinely and consistently trust.
Chapter 3: If you want the most effective team, your leaders must create and sustain the very best culture.
Chapter 4: A streamlined innovation process, free of micromanagement, is the best way to foster creativity.
Chapter 5: Drop the traditions that obstruct productivity.
Chapter 6: Your systems must support the people who make the products.
Chapter 7: We all dislike meetings, yet they’re a vital part of work when they’re run properly and well indeed.
Chapter 8: Effective teams require strong, healthy communication and abundant laughter too.
Description
The Year without Pants offers an intimate look at life inside one of the most successful tech companies out there: Automattic, the brains behind sites like Wordpress.com and Polldaddy. By thinking outside the box, abandoning tradition and cutting the fat from your processes, you too can follow Automattic’s example and jumpstart innovation.
Who Should Listen
- Entrepreneurs from any industry
- Start-up CEOs
- Employees in tech industries