The Muse: If you don’t know Michael Dearing, you should. In a fantastic story by Leigh Buchanan in Inc’s March issue, Dearing, who’s on the faculty of Stanford’s design school, riffed on the eternal entrepreneurial topic of how to scale your company without losing the cultural idiosyncrasies that make you a special startup.
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After also having read an article about standing meetings, this sounds significantly more effective. It keeps people engaged and thinking rather than trying to absorb large amounts of information and later attempt to get in thoughts along the way. My robotics team has been working to come up with ways to anonymize ideas since new members to the team often feel like their ideas are less important, and the members of the team who tend to be the best engineers don’t have the best ideas every single time. It also promotes the mentality that ideas are property of the team, not the individual. The problem is that people often need to explain their ideas. If someone puts a suggestion on a stick note, and it is misinterpreted, they have to lose anonymity to express their idea. Anonymity might work for questions or quick comments, but people will need to field questions when it comes to more complex ideas. Still, the idea of moving meetings from a presentation format to a science fair format seems like a very good one.
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