Metadata
- Author: Jean Hsu
- Full Title:: Does Your Startup Feel Chaotic? Good.
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Como, Company Culture,
- URL:: https://every.to/p/does-your-startup-feel-chaotic-good
- Finished date:: 2023-11-14
Highlights
Some of this chaos is good. It leaves room for creativity, gives team members more agency, and keeps your organization flexible. I call this necessary chaos. What doesn’t work is unnecessary chaos, borne by a lack of planning. Unnecessary chaos eats into any bandwidth for necessary chaos, which is the lifeblood of startups. (View Highlight)
There are meetings with no agenda or structure, and there are often follow-up meetings. (View Highlight)
Although there have been ample opportunities to provide feedback, someone swoops into a design file as a feature is about to launch, questioning its basic premise and functionality. (View Highlight)
Rather than unstructured, stream-of-consciousness writing, opt for structured written communication in templated tech specs or product requirement docs (View Highlight)
If you’re running a meeting, create predictability and structure. If you create space for open discussion, facilitate aggressively to keep the discussion relevant and aligned with the meeting’s purpose (View Highlight)