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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Would love to hear what actual Basecamp employees really think. Still, I agree but with a lot of the messages in this book.
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This book will make you want to work at Base Camp lol There’s good highlighted points referenced but not many that can be applied. Like the idea of less meetings. I love that idea but what action can I take to have less meetings? In doing so would require a culture change at the work place. I do agree with a lot of the stuff in the book though. Jason definitely knows his stuff but this feels more like an open letter to the corporation.
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Wenn man 2018 nur ein einziges Business-Buch lesen will, dann würde ich das hier vorschlagen. In gewohnt kurzen und knackigen Kapiteln (1-3 Seiten lang) bringen die beiden Gründer von Basecamp die Themen auf den Punkt. Welcher Weg führt zu "Calm" - also zu einem ruhigen, gelassenen Management bzw. Unternehmen. Das ist streckenweise ganz schön provokant gegenüber herkömmlicher Management-Theorie, aber immer auch einleuchtend. Ganz oft kann man sich mal an die eigene Nase greifen, gerade beim Umgang mit Zeit und diversen Verhaltensweisen bei Stress. Ich hatte lange nicht mehr beim Lesen so oft das Bedürfnis, mir Zitate zu markieren und Ideen rauszuschreiben. Lohnt sich auch nicht nur für Manager, sondern eigentlich für jeden, der arbeitet :)
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A lot has changed about our work spaces since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020. Before this, very few companies considered allowing any portion of their employees to work from home. Then we were all forced to figure out how to do so if it was at all possible. Now, as the pandemic starts to wane, businesses are trying to figure out how to manage with the new expectation of working from home.
Just as the pandemic has challenged employers to revisit their attitudes toward their employees working from home, so have the authors of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work challenged traditional views of how companies should be run. Their company (Basecamp) is 100% remote and has been since it started. And in this book the authors outline many other aspects of how they run their successful company (it has been profitable from day one).
In short essays, they talk about how they run their business. Here is a sample of some of the subjects covered.
- Paying for their employees' vacations
- Limiting work to only 40 hours a week (32 hours in the summer months)
- Paying everyone in the same job the same salary
- Doing less but doing it better
The writing in the book is straightforward, funny, and approachable. But perhaps my favorite aspect of the book is that they state right up front that they developed these ideas as they went. That some things that worked when they were a small company of only three people didn't work when they were a company of fifty people. I find it refreshing—that kind of perspective and willingness to change policy and procedure.
So while not all of the ideas in this book may appeal to you or your company, the thinking behind these ideas is worth you time to contemplate and consider.
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This was a great way of getting into the mindset of identifying and rejecting bad working practices. Not every point in the book applies to every job or company - but that would be a ridiculous expectation. The value of this book is in its title. It reminds the reader that it doesn't have to be crazy at work, and that they can cultivate or find a healthy working environment. It helps the reader reject the idea that "this is just how it is, there can't be anything better than this, it's probably as good as it will get".
In general: I really liked the principles in this book. I do think it's an important mindset that (as a director of technology) I wish my industry had more of, and a mindset I do my best to foster within my team.
However, I couldn't give this five stars. Not even four. Because ultimately, it felt like an arrogant, self-congratulatory and book-length advertisement about why you should work for Basecamp. And I get it, it's a culture to be proud of, but as a book and not a blog I expected there to be research applied, or even anecdotes from other companies in the mix.
However, I couldn't give this five stars. Not even four. Because ultimately, it felt like an arrogant, self-congratulatory and book-length advertisement about why you should work for Basecamp. And I get it, it's a culture to be proud of, but as a book and not a blog I expected there to be research applied, or even anecdotes from other companies in the mix.