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Life in the Cubicle
Keep them in the cubicle: Don't let them see Montana!
Is it our imagination or are more people fleeing the old model of "all
work and no play" that corporate America persists in inflicting
on us? There are more and more entrepreneurs, independent consultants
and those who just plain quit. Some years ago, I drove past a Colorado
ranchette called "Big City Dropouts."
Well, that's one solution, but here's another...
Great Harvest Bread Company No Venture Capital and a 40-hour Work Week
(from an interview in StrategyWeek.com)
KAREN LAKE (StrategyWeek.com): One of the things that is very different
about you, especially in our dot-com world, is that you have a corporate
requirement that you can't work more than forty hours a week.
TOM MCMAKIN (Great Harvest Bread): Exactly. It's a requirement here
in our home office that you'll actually get fired if you work more than
forty hours a week. We have a very strong belief in having a balanced
life, waking up in the morning refreshed and going to work.
Ours is a people business, particularly at the franchise office. We've
tried to create a culture that says that this business that you're buying
should be in service of your life; your life ought not to be in service
of that business.
We do not believe, as a company, that one ought to enslave oneself in
a bakery in order to cash out, go public and move to Montana. We moved
to Montana first and decided to create a business that allows us to
live the life we want to live. We try and teach that model to our owners.
Decide what's important to your life and design this business in a way
that supports that end.
Full interview: http://interviews.strategyweek.com/rs.nsf/Interviews/Tom+McMakin?OpenDocument
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| Ruth Ann Hattori |
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