New answers tagged time-management
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He is lazy / wastes 5-6 hours every day on social networking and the
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Okay - whether it is wasteful or not depends on what actually gets delivered at the end of the week. Many people search for inspiration / input from others while formulating a plan of attack. Others just post what they just ate.
Rather than labeling what (s)he does as ...
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Ive seen similar issues myself and the best thing I think one can do in this scenario is build a stronger team without him..
Suggest to him that you both dissolve 10% each to get someone in on 20% equity. Ok you lose 10% but you now have a team member who is actually helping you. If you can do that a couple of times, you have diluted the impact his laziness ...
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It doesn't matter how you decide, just decide that someone has each specific role, one of which is boss.
Choose by drawing lots if necessary.
You can set up in your bylaws rules about how the board chooses the boss, etc, so the role can change if the person first chosen doesn't work out well in that role. Provide OBJECTIVE evaluation criteria....
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Your situation sounds similar to ours: we all do a bit of everything. We've been thinking of dividing up the work into clear areas (e.g., marketing, product), but in the meantime we organise ourselves with bug tracking software.
In the bug tracker we list everything outstanding: bugs, new features, marketing effort (time we spend on Twitter, PR...), ...
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Yes you should appoint a leader/boss and that person should be the one who wants to help develop the rest of you. At the end of the day, it will be the manager's role to get work done through other people.
Some factors which might help influence your decision include:
Is there somebody who is less interested in staying technical as their career develops?
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Ultimately, every organisation needs a boss. Anyone can do the easy stuff, but there also needs to be someone empowered to make the hard, unpopular decisions and then take responsibility for seeing them through.
If you find it impossible to agree on one of you for this role, perhaps look outside for someone to be CEO, or at least someone who can moderate ...
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This feels like one of those questions which it is impossible to answer without knowing the individuals involved - my first reaction is yes you should have a leader but, in this situation, I don't think it will work.
The reason I say that is you have already acknowledged that you cannot agree under the current arrangement - what exactly would change if ...
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