Comments on: mozilla talk at stanford

By: Michael patch manager

Michael patch manager — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:46:48 +0000

These slides are great. Thanks

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:11:08 +0000

WOW Superb!

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:19:17 +0000

Just one word: fabulous

By: Will

Will — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:45:59 +0000

This talk must have been great

By: Mark Surman

Mark Surman — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:15:57 +0000

Great deck, John. Would love to hear the voice over if you get around to it. Can you replace the PDF on slideshare with the original slides? I'd like to borrow some.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:56:15 +0000

Excellent.

By: skierpage

skierpage — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:51:44 +0000

FYI, if you block cookies, you never see the slides at http://www.slideshare.net.

By: finette.co.uk » blog » Mozilla’s CEO John Lilly on Management

finette.co.uk » blog » Mozilla’s CEO John Lilly on Management — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:43:03 +0000

[...] Lilly, Mozilla’s CEO, recently gave a talk at Stanford university about how management works (and happens) in a heavily decentralized organization such as [...]

By: johnolilly

johnolilly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:00:14 +0000

hi; i don't mind questions or dissent at all — anyone who's worked with me for any period of time knows that. if you've got real issues, send me mail to talk about them, but to my knowledge none of these comments are grounded in any way. if you're mad about specific things, let me know and we can talk through them. i'm easy to find — lastName @ mozilla dot com.

for whatever it's worth, we do indeed push decisions as far out as possible — we do it for routine things, we do it for significant things. we have many decision makers, in all functions.

By: thetruthaboutmozilla

thetruthaboutmozilla — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:50:28 +0000

Was it easy to give this talk?

I mean, you had to know you were lying through your teeth when you claimed that decision-making is pushed "to the edges" of Mozilla.

Everyone even mildly associated with anything-Mozilla knows that 5-10 people at Mozilla.COM make the relevant decisions... and if there's a decision that affects any one of your guys' resumes, you'll make sure it goes the "right" way. Which, of course, has nothing to do with what's best for the Mozilla community, or for the Web.

I suppose none of us should be surprised; it's not about reality as much as it's about perception. Right?

Keep up the great work, John!

(Which mostly has nothing to do with what Mozilla really should be about!)

P.S. I know how much you detest dissent within your own organization--we all know your "open door" policy is so you can ferret out those who disagree with you--I'll be interested to see if this comment even appears.

Two to one: it won't.

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:09:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing the slides! Looking forward to the book version!