{"id":2375,"date":"2017-07-01T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2017-07-04T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:15:21","slug":"on-managing-your-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/01\/on-managing-your-team\/","title":{"rendered":"On managing your team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running a startup is not an easy job. You have to keep everyone happy from customer to team member. While some people fail at it others excel in building a successful company.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2380\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20151202_093130-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20151202_093130-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20151202_093130-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20151202_093130-675x900.jpg 675w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20151202_093130-195x260.jpg 195w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20151202_093130.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently read Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/notes-from-reading-inspired-how-to-create-products-customers-love-by-marty-cagan\/\">Marty Cagan<\/a>\u00a0 and PPP was the take away for me from it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>People<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIf you will hire right set of people, it will result in building great culture which over all benefit the organization. \u00a0But as a Founder you need to constantly ask:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Are you honest with your team?<\/li>\n<li>Are you giving them enough remuneration?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Are they equally excited with the vision?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If answer is yes, you are well on a successful path.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0Process<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nA lot many companies failed to attract right kind of talent and ended up shutting shop. \u00a0We humans crave for love and respect, nobody likes constant supervision or micro-management. \u00a0Define a simple process, be honest and let everyone in the team follow it. Keep in mind the empathy part, you as a founders are working with the team not sheep herding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Product<\/strong><br \/>\nLast part comes Product, you as a founder needs to ask some tough questions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Are you solving a problem?<\/li>\n<li>If it was pitched to you, would you have bought it?<\/li>\n<li>Ease of using.<\/li>\n<li>Are you creating a new habit?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you have answers for these, you are good to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running a startup is not an easy job. You have to keep everyone happy from customer to team member. While some people fail at it others excel in building a successful company. I recently read Inspired by Marty Cagan\u00a0 and PPP was the take away for me from it. People If you will hire right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/01\/on-managing-your-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On managing your team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,121],"tags":[291,292,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}