15. Disagreements Between Business Partners
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We start off discussing the latest on the Windows Phone 7 Series and its integration with the XBox. Next, we follow up from last week’s podcast episode and answer a listener comment.
On disagreements with business partners:
- 4 day work week? Opinions from 37signals and Ryan Carson
- Jason Fried of 37signals
- The Omni Group
- Droplr
- CloudApp
The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro). The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.
Love the show guys, keep it up!
1) Whats with the creepy interstitial music?
2) There is a quote “4 Hour Work Week” http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/
Kyle Jones
16 Mar 10 at 2:58 pm
Thanks Kyle!
1) You’re not the first person to make a comment, so I think we’ll be changing it soon
2) Yeah, that may have been a slip since that blog has a whole brand around it now. We’re a way out from outsourcing our email and sipping mojitos on the beach though!
rick
17 Mar 10 at 5:39 am
Talking about 4 day work weeks and trusing employees what does that mean for your stance on “workaholics”. Do you feel they are as detrimental as 37 Signals believes?
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics
Micah
17 Mar 10 at 11:39 am
@Micah – Rick & I both agree with the point 37signals made on workaholics.
However, I don’t view a workaholic as someone who exceeds the standard 40hrs/week. Rather, a workaholic is someone who negatively impacts their work and others with their unbalanced work habits.
I think this is an important distinction to make as I believe running your own business requires more than the standard 40hrs/week. The challenge though is to make sure that extra time you’re spending is actually useful and not harming the business — in other words, you don’t turn into a workaholic.
kevin
18 Mar 10 at 5:17 am