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Being a Manager at Odoo.
May 2016
Team Leader
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As an Odoo manager, you have to be team leader, before being manager.
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”Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
-- Peter Drucker
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What is a team leader?
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Someone who helps his team to succeed. You have to be at the service of your team, and not the other way around.
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Culture and the role of the manager.
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The culture is not a document.
It's the way you, the managers, act on a daily basis with your team.
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Many companies have nice sounding value statements displayed in the lobby, such as:
IntegrityCommunicationRespectExcellence
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Enrol, whose leaders went to jail, and which went bankrupt from fraud, had these values displayed at their lobby: IntegrityCommunication Respect Excellence
(These values were not, however, what was really valued at Enron.)
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Odoo's Culture Managers are the guardians of the culture
Build for the long termOptimize for customer experienceExecute fasterRecruit, develop and retain great people Innovate, be disruptiveKeep things simple Give the autonomy
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People
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”We want to be proud of our people, as much as we are of what we do.
-- HubSpot Culture
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A big part of the manager role is to recruit, onboard, develop and retain great people.
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1 Recruit
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Interview: assess competencies, not knowledge.
Evaluate what a person can do, rather than what he knows. Otherwise, people will appear better to you because they are experienced, not because they can over-achieve.
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How to access competencies?
Is he smart? (IQ test)Can he do a demo? (test it)Can he understand businessprocess he does not know? (business flow) Will he call a lot? (do qualification calls)Is he a good developer? (develop sth) Can he learn? (make him think about something he does not know)
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“Great” people does not mean “perfect”. We recruit people for what they can bring to the team, not because they are perfect.
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Exceptional skill
HR Skills
If you recruit for no default, you get average people.
Red = Odoo Green = Average Companies
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A great interview is about testing what they can do. Not about asking questions to check what they know. ?
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2Onboard new employees
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First day at work. Assign clear learning
objectives for the next month. Define weekly targets and be clear about the vision
and what you expect.
Make them perform something useful quickly.
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Also, Don't treat trainees like trainees. Assign real responsibilities and projects. There is no trainee job at Odoo.
It's better for them, and it's better for us.
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3Retention
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What motivates people?Autonomy Master / Evolution Purpose
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AutonomyThe desire to direct our own life.
Don't command and control, but trust people. Let them express themselves.
Give responsibilities, not tasks and let them think about how to achieve it.
Influence is independent of hierarchy.
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Autonomy does not mean lack of guidance... People need guidance; the more the better.
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Mastery / EvolutionThe desire to get better and better.
Invest time in training your team.
If someone fail, don't blame him but ask yourself what you insights you missed to provide.
Give books for their personal developments.
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Autonomy / GuidanceThe right balance.
Always explain the “Why” instead of assigning “What” to do. And let them the freedom to think about “How” to do.
If you don't agree, argue rather than command. It's sometimes tempting to avoid long discussions, but being assertive is bad for motivation and learning.
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PurposeWhat we do is in the service of something larger than ourself.
Always explain the “Why”. Communicate the big picture, even on small tasks.
Be sure everyone share the vision of the company and your team.
Reward and congrats people. Tell them how useful they are. Even for small tasks.
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Decisions the tool to execute faster
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1 Decision Profile
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Quality
Fast Complete
Most Companies They try to do
everything: Quality, complete, fast.
OpenERP SAWe do less, but we
do it faster with good quality
Our decision profile
Quality
Fast Complete
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How to be faster? Do only half of the things we should do.
Don’t do it
Do it
Things you would like to do
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2Keep focused. Less is more.
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Keep the team focused by sharing a clear direction
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Good managers can tell you what to do. Great managers knows how to remove tasks that burden people so that they can focus on what's essential.
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Explaining “Why we don't do” is a great way to keep people focused.
Example:
• If you say “please focus on usability”; you just burden your team with more work.
• If you say “No new features”, you allow them to focus on usability.
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3Build for the long term
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Odoo is a marathon, not a sprint.
Avoid building stuff for one-shot operations. Invest time only if it allows Odoo to get better in the long term. Capitalize on everything we do.
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4Build a lean company
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Rigidity increased by:
• Exceptions • Complex documents • Permanent decisions • Validation process • Long-term roadmaps • HR Policies • Planning • Hierarchies
Flexibility increased by:
• JIT thinking & decisions • Less software, less code • Open culture • Trust Good Judgment • Smart people
Keep things simple: flexibility over rigidity.
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Good process help talented people to get more work done. Bad process try to cover recoverable mistakes.
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Great managers figure out how to get great outcome by setting the appropriate context, rather than trying to control their people.
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Context (embrace)
• Strategy • Objectives • Clearly defined roles• Environment to learn • Decisions Transparency • Metrics
Control (avoid)
• Top-down decisions • Management approval • Committees • Planning and process valued
more than results
Context, no control provide the insight and understanding to enable the right decisions.
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Summary
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It's all common sense. But sometimes, for no real reason, people behave differently when they become managers as they would have done in their personal life.
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Inspired by: 37Signals (Rework, Getting Real) The Science of Motivation (Dan Pink)Effectuation (Sarasvathy)Netflix (Reed Hastings)Hubspot (Culture Code)