Software Innovation: No jerks!

Forbes reporta sobre SuccessFactors:

"...sells software to help companies track employee performance, manage succession planning and align pay with company goals. Its revenue will reach $100 million this year (per analysts), having doubled every year for the past three. Its 1,300 customers include plenty of big names..." Su fundador es Lars Dalgaard


¿No les parece despiadadamente evidente que una aplicación así tenía que ser muy útil y necesaria para las empresas? No hay duda que sí. El eslógan es "Align, Measure, Manage and Inspire Your Talent" ¡Guau!

La Misión:

"We strive to change the world by making every company we work with a more meritocratic place to work, where promotion and pay is based on performance and not politics. In this way, we are working to increase productivity inside of every company we work with by 50%"


Y de los Valores:

"4. We will increase worldwide productivity by 50%, and help change the world by making it a more accountable, and a more meritocratic place to work, where promotion and pay is based on performance not politics.

5. No jerks! Our organization will consist only of people that absolutely love what we do, with a white hot passion. We will have utmost respect for the individual in a collaborative, egalitarian, and meritocratic environment - no blind copying, no politics, no parochialism, no silos, no games, no cynicism, no arrogance - just being good! As the world's first provider of goal alignment, performance, talent development, succession planning, pay for performance, learning, and recruiting built together from the ground up, we are transforming organizations to achieve their true potential, and motivating employees to do the same."


Los problemas son las mismas oportunidades, llamémosles mejor RETOS. Aquello que tanto nos ha molestado (parece que en temas como el de la intriga política en las organizaciones y los empleados aprovechados, en todas partes se cuecen habas) es el origen de la creatividad y del producto valioso: porque a muchos otros también les molestaba, y no sólo a título personal sino también por sus nocivos efectos en la productividad