Managing By Ice Cream
Dan Schneider, who’s been someone’s boss since he was 16 years old, spent his early years as a “stereotypical lunatic C.E.O,” he tells the New York Times’ Adam Bryant.
Then he realized how to manage without looking like a jerk: ice cream.
When one employee’s hard drive failed with no backups of a major project, “everybody looked at me like they thought I was just going to fire him or kill him. And I don’t know where I got the idea, but I just said: ‘You’ve got to go buy everybody ice cream.
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