Via Inter-Actions, Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist says:
- No meetings, ever. “I find them stupefying and useless.”
- No management programmes and no MBAs. “I’ve always thought that sort of thing was baloney.”
- Forget the figures. “We are consistently in the black, so if we do better or worse in any given quarter it is absolutely irrelevant.”
He has more gems of wisdom but it speaks to me very much of a CEO who knows what he wants to achieve from day to day.
This is kinda how I feel, though I’m transitioning out of it.
- I loathe meetings when a simple email discourse will suffice. I just want to give someone a poke if they’re not keeping up. Find out what’s going on. See if it needs anything to bring it back on track.
- I don’t care about VC money or flipping the company. I just want to work every day on something that interests me. And I don’t need to be earning a million dollars a month to do that.
- The more I get involved in soft skills programmes, the more I’m convinced their utility for me is minimal. But it’s important to identify the buzzwords.