in Business & Leadership, Technology |

HP’s Rules of Garage

Something that inspired us, and is on our wall poster now.

  • Believe you can change the world.
  • Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
  • Know when to work alone and when to work together.
  • Share tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues.
  • No Politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage).
  • The customer defines a job well done.
  • Radical ideas are not bad ideas.
  • Invent different ways of working.
  • Make a contribution every day.
  • If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
  • Believe that together we can do anything.
  • Invent.

Write a Comment

Comment

  1. I’m either missing some sarcasm, or this is great timing for you to be running a post ’bout HP.

    Have you read the headlines that HP’s been making lately?

    Later,
    Sujeet

    Reply to Sujeet

  2. I think it’s great timing 😉

    For the people who do not know about the controversy, take a look at CNet’s coverage.

    Companies grow bigger and bigger, and many times they go farther and farther from their core values. The values than remain just in their marketing material and HR documents. It’s so important for leaders to review and compare themselves with the core values every now and then!

    Reply to Nirav

  3. Know when to work alone and when to work together.

    obviously. But, how to know? I mean in business groups where each decision holds much importance, what factor does decide this?

    apart from this, a request. Could u have a section in here on.. ur bookmarks or, ur daily visit etc.? because everytime u post links like.. ‘Cnet’s coverage’ i want to know all those u visit.

    Reply to bliss

  4. I just realized that there was nothing in there about birthing new ideas. “Invent” is great, but I’d prefer “the garage” creating and fostering an environment that pointed people towards the path of innovation.

    I hate to use Google’s work ethic as an example, but their “20% of your time on personal / tangentially-related to professional life” projects dictum is quite interesting. I’m sure it works well for the kind of company they are. Some variant of that, in an avatar that works well for the “garage”, would be a good thing to lead to “Invent”, methinks.

    Later,
    Sujeet

    Reply to Sujeet