Asana’s Justin Rosenstein on the One Quality Every Startup Needs to Survive

Re:Asana’s Justin Rosenstein on the One Quality Every Startu... by johnrob on Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:02PM (#7152636)

In my experience, lack of clarity is caused by the executive team not making their true goals known to the whole company. A classic example is prioritizing seemingly arbitrary products/features in hope of pleasing a future partner or acquirer - employees won't automatically know why these obscure projects suddenly became important.

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Re:Asana’s Justin Rosenstein on the One Quality Every Startu... by samstave on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:56PM (#7153592)

If the startup needs clarity to survive, then the exec level must have transparency to reach clarity.

If you do not have transparency; then clarity (about your true goals) is impossible, because execs with lack-of-transparency typically have other (more selfish/shady) goals that they are really requiring people to support through their work.

Typically, their (the execs) actual greed.

I have oft stated in the past that another positive outcome from transparency is also accountability.

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