Support for No More Committees
Posted on May 4th, 2007 by Jamie
Seth Godin was reflecting on the possibility of Microsoft buying Yahoo! and he made this statement (which seems to support Jeff’s “No More Committees” post):
“The best things to ever come out of Yahoo, as far as I’m concerned, have been the work of individuals. Not of some hyperbolic purple and yellow machine, but from people, strong-willed individuals willing to buck the bureaucracy. And all the worst stuff the company has done has come out of committees.”
Free thinking of individuals is what we need more of in companies. When a huge company starts dictating what to think, the creative thinking becomes a lot more contained…