This Tuesday I was at a presentation “Make the noise go away” that was put on by HNI and was really stumped by a question in the hallway as we were discussing what we just heard. The question had to do with the impact of the first in command being free to do what he is best at in the business that I am currently involved with managing, Bucket Brigade. It was hard to answer because we are not typically a hierarchy, and when we are different people can assume leadership under different circumstances, so it’s not always easy to even answer who is first in command. But my bigger challenge was explaining that everyone in our company already focuses on doing things we like and a great at.
That’s not to say that it’s all perfect, 2 days ago my streak of over 2 months with no internal e-mail was broken by my coworker forwarding something. And I don’t always know about everything I need to know about, sometimes it takes as much as half an hour to get myself up to speed by reading our internal notes if I was out of the loop for a while. And I get frustrated when, as a team we spend less than 2 days a week working on a business rather than in it. Occasionally, I have to show up even when the weather is nice, though working on our outdoor deck does make that more palatable. But the worst part is that sometimes I have to deal with the worst boss of them all, myself, though much of the time the team saves me from this frustration.
How do I explain that to somebody who spend their life working in a traditional corporation? They simply cannot relate to my frustrations. On the other hand, I look forward to the day when they do.
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