Thank you to Mike Shaver for 6 years at Mozilla

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41 points·erikpukinskis··6 comments

It's very telling about the culture of an organization when they actually appreciate their employees, even more so when they leave.

I've worked at too many places where managers try to block people from leaving by panicking, giving guilt trips, or being outright hostile, even more so after they've left. It's like they took a page straight out of Animal Farm and started blaming all problems on the employee who left.

Kudos to Mozilla for being the former and not the latter.

There's a really good article about this from Alex Papadimoulis, the founder of thedailywtf - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Tur... which pulls in a lot of the ideas from the "Cravath System"[1], a hiring and "employee/career management" process developed by a law firm some 100 years ago.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cravath_Syste...

With all of the focus on exits and pivots and runways and valuations, I love this view of entrepreneurship:

I quote him a lot when I talk with entrepreneurs of all stripes. I say this: “Figure out the world you want, and go make it that way.” That’s the essence of entrepreneurship, and I think it’s the essence of Mike.

And thanks to gkoberger for posting this link originally in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3054326

Looks like Mike is going to Facebook.

http://shaver.off.net/diary/2011/10/01/whats-next/

John's a sweetheart, for sure.

indeed, thank you Mike. you've been an inspiration to me.

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