Tom Mohr

 

   

Tom Mohr



106 Stories by Tom Mohr

Chapter 16: 120 Desks  –  On Recruiting, Hiring, and Promoting

Your board meeting is going well — in fact, the excitement is palpable. Everyone leans in. The three VC partners are to your left (Mark Goldstein...
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Chapter 15: Ninety-five Desks –  On Communications Architecture

Demand grew for more engineers at SparkLight Digital. The sales side CRM required further optimization. But it was also time to get to work...
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Chapter 14: Eighty-five Desks –  On How to Make Decisions

  Ever notice how a crisis begets opportunity? That’s just what happened with SparkLight Digital. When the system outage hit, everything needed doing at...
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Chapter 13: Seventy Desks  –  On Compensation

  The SparkAction CRM security breach might well have been fatal, had it not been for the discovery of the hacker. By day two...
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Chapter 12: One Hundred Desks  –  On Responsibility and Authority

  You finally closed your $15M B round in May, almost a year after the A round. Imagination Capital led the investment; Kapoor Capital...
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Chapter 11: Forty-five Desks  –  On Organization Architecture

  The trade show floor is bursting at the seams. So too is SparkLight Digital’s booth. Just this morning, you took part in four...
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Chapter 10: Forty Desks  –  On Competency

  Victor’s desk is in perfect order. Post-It notes sit neatly stacked in the back left corner exactly aligned with the stapler. Next to...
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Chapter 9: Twenty-five Desks  –  Decision Dynamics Overview

  For the first time in the history of SparkLight Digital, cash is not the primary constraint. For three years you were stuck in...
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Chapter 8: Fifteen Desks  –  On Followership

  The health of Bill’s wife took a nosedive the same week that Sanjay was fired. Her most recent round of chemotherapy taxed her...
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Chapter 7: Twelve Desks  – On Culture

  Sanjay’s coding productivity continues apace. Directly due to Sanjay’s efforts, for the first time, the entire CRM project is ahead of schedule. Joe...
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Chapter 6: Eight Desks –  On Teams

  The Tiger Project Team is off and running. Systems architecture drawings and user interface designs paper the walls of the Fieldstone Toyota conference...
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