This is a presentation I have delivered at various B-Schools (the likes of ISB, IIM etc), conferences and other venues. At Directi, we believe that Business is like a game. This presentation covers principles that embrace this philosophy and that have been instrumental to the success of Directi.
6. Hire the Best Can a hundred average high-jump athletes beat one Javier Sotomayor?
7. Hire the Best Can a 100 average musicians create what one Beethoven created?
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10. Hire the Best – The Directi Way Cost Comparison Graph * Cost of mgmt assumed at 4x employee. 1 Manager manages 10 employees * Opportunity cost of mistake assumed to be 1x salary * Cost of a Rockstar assumed to be 25% higher A “Rockstar” costs 25% lesser
11. Hire the Best – The Directi Way A “Rockstar” delivers 140% higher value Value Comparison Graph * A regular Employee creates value => 3x their salary and value of his/her ideas => 2x salary
12. Hire the Best Hiring “Rockstars” is 4x more profitable!!!
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16. Hire the Best – The Directi Way “ Expect to spend about 2x-3x the time in sourcing Top Talent as opposed to sourcing average talent”
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21. Hire the Best “ Recruitment is amongst the most valuable activity you can focus on”
56. Maintain a Playbook “ Knowledge sharing can be accomplished in 2 ways – Write OR Wrong” People Impacted Value Read it yourself 1 100 Email to select Colleagues 5 500 Post on team mailing list 10 1000 Post in wiki 20 2000 Post in wiki and link it appropriately 50 5000
Imagine watching a cricket game without a score Imagine giving exams in your school but never receiving a single test score Infact games score everything – speed, wickets, history, angle, curve, direction, length of run etc few businesses can claim they measure as much
Transparency to the extreme none of these are about keeping watch. They are open to everyone
Purpose – not because we are monitoring anything – just because we are open and transparent these reports have been built by people
Its not that we are trying to keep a watch – its just that we love numbers and love publishing them. Trying to also work on a system where you can tell which guy went to which room – figure out usage of conference rooms etc. all data leads to decisions this one for instance tells us overlap times between teams and within teams
This is but a sliver of the total number of reporting screens in the company on peoples machines, on the intranet, on LCD screens etc everyone is encouraged to provide reports
in sports it is not uncommon to have a 600-800 page playbook in school we always had textbooks and guides
Value of a single item you read – depending on the action you take Incremental time to take any of these actions is negligible Cost savings of others not having to look for that resource Best advantage: you can find the same resource again easily – others know where it is, search / index
and I am not talking about the first few weeks of a relationship OR a Palmpilot
You have to define and document to scale – I personally spend a lot of my time on it you will see in the graph I have added 13000 pages of written content myself – excluding attachments, files, emails, ppts
isnt this another thing you love about games. Each player can distinctly link their actions to the outcome starfish story I always say – to decide any career in your life – what is the impact you are making and what impact is it making to you exams also have a clear linkage between actions to outcome
team party and recognition budgets impromptu get togethers milestone recognition moments