This morning I had some time on my hands, so I decided to watch a couple of TED talks. I came across a really interesting one by Jason Fried (of Basecamp fame). Check it out below:

This vid really got me thinking. The first thought was “Man I have to stop interrupting people”. And the second was “I’ve gotta can our meetings”. We fall in to the ‘Monday Morning Meeting’ category, and I have to agree with Jason and say that on the rare occasion that we do miss those meetings, business carries on as usual. Interesting.
As far as managers being distracting – well we all have our roles in the business, be it technical, R & D, marketing or sales. And part of that is asking the other guys where we’re at in those areas. But we already use passive comms (email and instant messaging), so it’s not very often that someone is actually tapped on the shoulder. Which is great!

It’s going to be interesting moving forward and seeing what happens as the size of our company grows. How will we handle large teams? And multiple employees working on different projects? If meetings are a distraction, what’s the best alternative (I’m thinking something like Basecamp…)? In any case, I’m looking forward to it!