the most important decision

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The Most Important Decision Presented by:Amin Palizban, CEO, 7Geese

MOST IMPORTANT DECISION

“The most important decision we can make is

whether we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

From that one decision all others spring.”

Do we live in a friendly or hostile universe?

IMPLICATION OF OUR DECISION

Hostile: Create walls and weapons using our resources and technology.

Neither Friendly nor Hostile: Universe is random. Life has no purpose.

Universe is Friendly: Collaborate, use technology & resources to understand.

MOST IMPORTANT DECISION AT 7GEESE

For the purposes of 7Geese and everything we do

here, we are deciding that the universe is friendly.

This is the foundation of all other decisions.

Caveat: We are still a tech company, not blind, will

lock our doors, and rely on data and facts.

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FRIENDLY: TEAM CUSTOMERS USERS VENDORS COMPETITORS !

1. Purpose, Beliefs, Strategy

2. Marketing, Sales, & Support

3. Product & Engineering

4. Company Operations

5. Q & A

in a friendly universe

PURPOSE, BELIEF, & STRATEGY

PURPOSE, BELIEF, & STRATEGY

Purpose: Providing technology products and tools to help people

reach their potential.

Belief: People are intrinsically motivated to perform their best when

organization has completing vision, objectives, and culture of support.

Core Values: Having high standards, Being Hungry to Learn, Making it

Happen, and Demonstrating Passion

Control

Industrial Revolution

Rigid Orgs

Corporate Ladder

Gen X

Management

Culture

Information Age

Agile Workforce

Taking Ownership

Millennials

Coaching

PURPOSE AND BELIEF

PURPOSE AND BELIEF

Source: Inc. Magazine - Traits

of True Leaders

SALES, MARKETING, SUPPORTin a friendly universe

MARKETING, SALES, & SUPPORT

Education: Educating our audience about the friendly universe with

blogs, webinars, videos, tutorials, blogs, and the product itself.

Generosity: Giving as much value we can without attachment to results.

Having affordable pricing. (Adam Grant - Power of Generosity)

Community: Creating our own community (users, customers, team,

advocates) and nurturing it.

Things we won’t do: Aggressive sales, interruption-based marketing,

paid marketing, and anything that doesn’t add value to people.

PRODUCT & ENGINEERINGin a friendly universe

PRODUCT & ENGINEERING

Valuable: Enabling users, managers, and admins to be successful and

unleash their potential. Add value right away and more over-time.

Easy-to-use: Being easy to use, easy to rollout, fast, simple, and

accessible from different devices. In app training and guides.

Integrations & APIs: Integrate with other tools people use and

enabling people to build their own applications. Data portability.

Things we won’t do: Patents, locking people, developing too much

administrative features, and copying competitors.

COMPANY OPERATIONin a friendly universe

COMPANY OPERATION

People: Supporting, building alliance, unleashing potential, having high

expectations, paying market rates, great recruiting, and graceful departures.

Management: Self-management, peer accountability, decentralization,

holacracy, transparency, ownership, balancing results with values.

Flexibility: Flexible work schedule, work-life integration, unlimited

vacations, and giving back to company more than we take.

Things we won’t do: Hiring people that don’t exhibit core values, having

too much hierarchy and admin, and taking value from the company.

DECISION TO LIVE IN A FRIENDLY WORLD

Helping our users and ourselves grow

Driving business results

Adding value to the world

Q & A

THANKS FOR LEARNING!

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