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A Culture of Discipline
By: Jake Alonzo
Charly Cone
Natalie Bohman
Meredithe Marshall
Michael Scott
Mikey Via
Virginie Charlotte Milhaud
A Culture of Discipline
Few start-ups have great success because:
Company responds to rapid growth in wrong way
Company can “trip” over its own rapid growth.
There is inherent lack of resources for new successful
companies because they cannot keep up with
This quickly will push the firm to organize a more
hierarchical structure
Employees: structured reporting relationships
Discipline for Success
From an Entrepreneurial standpoint:
Employees begin to hate the organizational structure
Have added job responsibilities with unequal perceived
compensation
The process of disciplining involves:
Forming hierarchical relationships and initiating
bureaucratic rules to follow to avoid mayhem
This is aimed at managing the “wrong people”
Proves to drive away the “right people” on your
corporate “bus”
Main Ideas
Responsibility at Google
Strong Code of Conduct
« Good-to-Great companies built a consistent system with clear constraints but they also
gave people freedom and responsibilities in the framework of that system. They Hired
self-disciplined people who didn’t need to be managed and then managed the system, not
the people. » Good to Great – J. Collins – P.125
Rinsing Your Cottage Cheese
Monopoly
Government broke it up
Had to give patents to the competition
drastically decreased
Level five leader helped the situation
Fred Allen and successor