How To Build A Perfect Company

Can you create a perfect company? Bill Witherspoon, founder of The Sky Factory, summed up a perfect company.

Painting begins on a piece of white paper.

At the beginning of the establishment of The Sky Factory, I envisaged that my staff had a strong desire for knowledge and creativity, so I created an environment suitable for them to work. Employees played the role of self-management rather than mechanically completing certain tasks.

At work, employees enjoy full autonomy and assess the purchase and sale of products, and 100% of employees must be involved.

This desire for sales revenue and profit motivates employees to strive for themselves.

To this end, I have established five enterprise systems.

1, share

Every employee here has a sense of ownership and will take an active part in the company's major decisions.

So, employees need to know everything about the company.

All the information of The Sky Factory is public and on the table.

Every Friday, we will hold a two hour meeting to review the major issues of this week, summarize the problems this week and the problems we need to solve next week, including the number of architects visited by the market.

These data will be summarized and saved to historical documents, anyone can check it at any time.

This maximizes the efficiency of information utilization.

"Secret" will corrode the corporate culture. "Secret" will breed internal contradictions and power struggles.

Therefore, open sharing of information will curb unnecessary "secret" generation, thereby enhancing the internal operation efficiency of enterprises.

2, give everyone equal.

There is no hierarchy in the The Sky Factory company. There is no real manager or supervisor in the enterprise.

Leading positions are rotations once a week. The task is to coordinate the work of employees. Different employees will hold regular meetings every week (the order of rotation is based on the initial letter of the surname).

What employees will say when they see what they say will be executed, so employees will not feel under surveillance.

I firmly believe that the combination of everyone's ideas is a great decision. This enterprise's single layer management organization ensures that every employee has the right to express their opinions, and all the ideas will be taken seriously.

Eliminating privileges eliminates fear, and employees can really get what they want.

3. Making decisions depends on team strength.

Every employee of The Sky Factory is a part of the enterprise, and is involved in every process of enterprise growth.

Therefore, all major decisions are made public, and the wisdom of each person is brought together. The final resolution must be in the fundamental interests of every employee.

When a resolution has not been approved by everyone, this resolution will end there.

Perhaps when the market conditions change or new information comes up, resolutions will be in everyone's interest, and it will be necessary for employees to sit together and renegotiate.

4, serve each other.

The inner part of our company is like a community, and the core of the community is service.

There are two kinds of services here: first, I pay for you while I hope to get the corresponding return. For example, I provide good customer service, I need a certain degree of customer loyalty; two, selfless, selfless service, I instinctively help others, do not ask for any return.

We don't force employees to choose which services, but we will tell everyone what they do for their customers and others this week at regular meetings.

5, sharing revenue

Every month, we will take 50% of the company's profits to all the employees who work hard.

I think this is probably the best way to motivate employees, and this is something everyone should get.

Employees will work harder and employees will become the real owners of enterprises.