To day I die, non-war crime! I did not start reading before strange 'three' now! English text: Organizational Debt is like Technical debt \u0026 ndash; butworse Editor's Note: This article from the innovation innovation guru Steve Blank's blog, mentioned that technical debt, the harm can be described as the product known. However, this new organization mentioned debt, it may be the unknown. And that for start-ups often also fatal Que Shibi technical debt, see below innovation guru Steve Blank is how to integrate theory with practice our founding fathers were imparting instruction ... Technical Debt Debt vs. organizational startups companies are looking for their product / market match (Product / Market fit) and burn, so they are very concerned about the speed of product development day, which is understandable. But, as the saying goes: haste makes waste. If you blindly pursue product development and get early customers speed, while ignoring the Code / hardware encoding / build quality, then when will often backfire. Although the product is apparently out, but support product code / hardware may yet become very difficult to extend and maintain. This sacrifice made for speed slowly over time grew until tired, became we often say \u0026 ldquo; technical debt \u0026 rdquo; a. Even if our company in the short term appears to have been successful, but the product inside the technical debt, but also add up, hidden along with it doubled, when might become, non-take big risks, major surgery can not a. So when we do product development often reconstructed by means of technology to solve the problems caused by debt, although the entire reconstruction and will not bring any additional functionality, but it puts our code more stable and easy to read, thus also make our code easier to extend and maintain. Technical debt described above would be understandable, because this discussion everywhere. Tell me what they may not know, however, in addition to so-called technical debt this risk, the process of growing startups in fact hiding a possible alternative to bring greater harm \u0026 ldquo; \u0026 rdquo ;. debt And that this debt is very deadly, it can instantly kill your company set. This is the main protagonist of our discussion today - \u0026 ldquo; tissue debt (Organizational Debt) \u0026 rdquo ;. In short, the organization refers to the debt compromise choice at all startups early, the company organized in order to quickly make up the company and made. Every day you worked hard all night long, painstaking and products for your company to pay, businesses will be expected to lose ground Yimapingchuan fast forward (to capture the market), guessed concentrate battled occasion, \u0026 ldquo; tissue debt \u0026 rdquo; this long or anti-bone The guy has Huoqixiaoqiang engage in a fight against each other, will be your base camp (business) instantly became chaotic nightmare than seven countries! Eventually you can Yangtianchangtan: \u0026 ldquo; day I want to die, but also non-war crime! I did not start reading before three strange men! \u0026 Rdquo; it is an ongoing development of the start-ups want to \u0026 ldquo; tissue debt \u0026 rdquo; the seeds have a deep understanding, to know how to be like refactoring code to handle \u0026 rdquo; technical debt \u0026 ldquo; as, by \u0026 ldquo; Reconstruction \u0026 rdquo ; your organization to deal with your \u0026 rdquo; \u0026 ldquo ;. tissue debt Processing technical debt is to make your product code easier to maintain and more scalable, analogy, dealing with organizational debt is to make your organization more stable and easy to maintain and scalable. For example, which is like a bug in the code may result in your product returns waves, an enterprise \u0026 rdquo; fron \u0026 ldquo; risks may be full defection (here put aside the controversial history of Wei Yan Zhuge Liang kill if there is sufficient evidence aside). Company CEO Tom's question saying that last week I had a meal at noon together with Tom, Tom is the CEO of a start-up company, the start-up company is developing rapidly, much as the momentum of a big business - which in total revenue last year was 4,000,000 US dollar this year, approaching 8 million and even 10 million, and its revenue mainly from advertising. The company's traditional print media, on websites and mobile devices to do a re-invention, because the new generation of readers are inclined to read online rather than buying physical magazine. The content of the media's theme, target audience clear and timely updated daily. Excited when Tom comes when the next round of financing the company will be valued $ 500 million. He will talk it does so to maintain the exponential growth of the Company, as well as how the company will recruit, but also talked about the many issues and followed the rapid expansion of business and to the. (The company last year increased the strength from 100 to 200, and now wishing to re-surge 200). When Tom will continue to pay close attention to its high valuation of the company will be acquired, but I tried to reverse the company wishing topic will be how to deal with problems encountered by the rapid growth of all kinds, such as: how the company culture and work set about establishing a viable and efficient system on the new training functions? At the same time, how will stabilize the morale of many of Tarawa old Army, after all, only veterans have been through neon genesis evangelion wigs fire and water holding recruits pay and equity with the company. And Tom was always continue naturally to himself how to choose a new piece of Feng Shui for the company, in which the purchase of high-end furniture, of course, also talked about how to follow their own plan highlighted the danger of the key generals to provide royalties. Note, and key generals talk about it.
And that made me feel something bad. Philippines view of a VC was a VC from the Philippines were also present, were entertaining our courtesy. He and I drank a cup of coffee and then asked him to challenge the company's expansion encountered any wisdom. When I heard the following sounds feel very VC (venture capital) specialized terminology After answering raspberry endless: \u0026 ldquo; This is a platform, not a simple product \u0026 ldquo; even point to a more fashionable answer: \u0026 rdquo ; this is a potential of \u0026 ldquo; The Unicorn \u0026 ldquo; Oh. \u0026 Ldquo; in fact, these answers seem more like a strategic goal of a long-term plan, so I further probing the VC said: '(Since it requires a substantial recruitment) then you will be and how these new staff orientation do you for today working in the company? the level of the bottom of that group of older employees and prepare for what disposal and consideration? you also considered a move that could make your company a costly resource development in recent years has been holding up the floor of the veteran who resigned why not? I get As Tom turned out to be a style like answer: We will issue new senior equity (Yes, Tom and his partner will be sold during the next round of financing certain equity), provides a beautiful office environment, or I You talk to reaffirm our wish and strategy of aggressively Wei? The Philippines VC continue endlessly reiterated their strategy of aggressively Wei is willing, but I have a listener mood because I began to realize that, yes, he does Discovery and incubation of start-ups on top of the initial stage can be regarded as talented, but he also gives the company a good vision to attract new investment to come in the next round. But the problem is he does not know how to expand a company He never really had a successful operation of the enterprise, or worse still, he never had the assistance of a start-up from the initial seek business model and product / market match to the next stage of business matures, the need for infrastructure \u0026 ldquo; build \u0026 rdquo; in order to expand the company experiences better unless they're going to overturn the initiatives taken by the company, otherwise the debt will be organized with incredible speed quickly brought them an unexpected impact in fact, they are. At this time plans should take this how \u0026 ldquo; reconstruction \u0026 rdquo; their organization debt, while Tom is impossible to get any solution in this regard from the board of the organization debt predictable though, as mentioned above, the company. Senior Personnel has a good plan for the organization, and has all the other benefits will be offered other startups, such as free food, and even allowing employees to bring their pets to work, however, they are from the initial creation of the company's 100 staff tried their very best to do to the hundreds of people now organize debt backlog up investment of time to think about it is pitiful. And that the 100 employees are founders have a professional knowledge and work skills of well-tempered in the company founded in the early , because they wanted a media industry will subvert the old new media company who are drawn to, and they know that business was hard, low-paid and are holding a small stake to the company for a while When they've been down quietly contribute to the company, when a new round of financing you and the consequent large number of recruits with high salaries, it is not forcing them to tears LinkedIn Updates dusty resume regret do ? Ironically, when a new wave of a large number of recruiting comes, before your company is too small because the early establishment of an induction system that is no longer applicable. With the Cosplay Costumes influx of several hundred recruits, the company began desperately looking for people who want to establish an effective orientation system updates to these recruits to train together: to let them into the company's culture inside, followed by the need for a formal process to train their access to appropriate skills. Unfortunately, those who can take on this task is precisely the batch has been holding floor and is now ready to update the resume demobilized veterans. At this time, indicating that the organization debt on Ruqierzhi! How to reconstruct the organization of debt when I promised Tom will come out together for coffee after a few days, to help him solve these problems.
A few days later we come to the party. I first asked his views on the HR department boss, his answer was that HR boss very nice to do, there is help provide health insurance social security for our employees to assist in the company's equity investments, as we deal with automated expense report, organize We watch movies at night, do a lot of camping activities for team building. I told him that if you put an early start-up companies, HR be doing very well indeed. However, this is different from the past, you have now is to build the infrastructure stage, now is the time to the next level up (HR if you can not keep up with the pace, only threw him downstairs). Tom because he is an engineer by training, so when I use \u0026 ldquo; technical debt \u0026 rdquo; \u0026 ldquo resolve this metaphor to him; tissue debt \u0026 rdquo;, he soon grasped. He immediately asked, 'So how do I reconstruct the organization of debt it \u0026 ldquo; I gave him the following seven recommendations - some of which require vigorous and resolute execution immediately, some of it will take time every step of the difficult advance: build a simple? workable plan to manage the influx of the next recruitment for every hiring manager following the repeated orders: If you do not have to own need to update your resume LinkedIn extent, then, do not try to recruit additional staff to this level if true Before then please do not use or share the early days of Job Profile, update a stage and we are now consistent with the company. Please describe how you will know these recruits are trained to allow them to quickly put the corresponding function positions. clear description of how the assessment of what should be in these new recruits which level the company to start up from the position of each promotion levels and standards listed, but also make the job of starting down the various levels and standards downgraded to settle down. Finally, The recruits in their current position in which the upper and lower describe how to complete their task of sorting out and I also noticed Tom for \u0026 ldquo;. Reconstruction \u0026 ldquo; tissue preparation debt investment is not enough I gave him the definition of the practice of robbing the poor to the rich - is to rob the old floor has been holding wages to pay high salaries to new employees that would make the company's key employees frustrated and cause brain drain. He should stop just for key employees 10% pay rise in order to appease the people of practice, but should consider how much to pay if hiring a new employee to replace the old staff have key technologies if needed, in my opinion, he should be re-raise based on the original 50% to flat so he should do now is to such a request should HR boss: the pay of existing older employees do in-depth investigation, and also the peer-depth in this area The investigation to find companies that want to stay in key senior staff immediately gave them a raise and increase equity following recommendations to implement a certain degree of difficulty, because he is related to changes in the entire organization as a whole:... Tom needs to be considered original employees and recruit them as part of their roles \u0026 ldquo; \u0026 rdquo ;. reconstruction that some employees may not keep pace with the development of the company, can not keep the company from the early days of the original start was just hack wigs concerned about how to find product / market match up to now have certain size require infrastructure \u0026 ldquo; build \u0026 rdquo; the pace of expansion, or is this part of the employee does not fit in a larger enterprise work, or is this part of the staff there has been the attitude of these employees may be entrepreneurial. The early came through a friend relationship now underperformance if they remain in key positions, then the new employee performance evaluation is difficult to have fairness in the \u0026 ldquo;. Reconstruction \u0026 rdquo; will be a very difficult process You must be a good plan should be how to move forward. In addition to the need for people to reconstruct the outside, it is time we look at the reconstruction of the company culture. Whether the early start-up companies to now full-fledged cultural values and a massive increase in staff time is still also apply it? Imagine a key factor, we can do today to support the high valuation of exactly what does? Whether they are the same thing? Or differ?
The key factor is how to support us? Why supporting us? Perhaps it is time to consider at what this company stands for anything. Now that the company has developed to a certain extent, the company began to expand the scale, we are no longer a conference room around a round table or in the café for a guerrilla-style office stragglers. We need to promote a company culture to our company, to accompany our company grow together. Sometimes, this corporate culture takes three Shen five fixed order, as a start, what's even CEO will ignore their own company culture. From a start-up company that once pioneered early maturing, so we need to build infrastructure, and the build process is a process of rapid transformation of the company. Repeatedly stressed in the course of this upheaval the company's culture and slogan is let us not lose direction and maintenance of stability is very important method. So the way to communicate with customers whether it needs to be reconstructed? In the early days, all the customers are likely to follow this CEO Tom interact directly, so that even today, you should consider whether this is feasible? Is this what you expect? Finally, because this is Tom and his board for both a new thing, so if you can find some who have experienced before the above mentioned \u0026 ldquo; build \u0026 rdquo; this rapid growth phase of the company from the early days to the people, to ask them to set up an advisory committee, which is better and better. The following is the lesson of this case related by Tom lesson we should have learned about the organization of debt: a start-up company start-ups come from fast-growing need for infrastructure build stage are very lucky, but there will be some new challenges: Remember Challenges encountered in this stage is not just strategy. It also includes the company's long-term accumulation went down \u0026 rdquo; tissue debt \u0026 ldquo; reconstruction challenge. Induction, training, culture, as well as the return of the old staff, all in \u0026 rdquo; build \u0026 ldquo; phase encountered problems need a new perspective and approach to treatment. If the organization can not be successful reconstruction of debt, so that the blow could be fatal. Translation / World Council Zhuhai Fenduo; micro-channel public number: TechGoGoGo /techgogogo