投资人 @gokulr 最近发了一篇很好的帖子，谈到创业者/CEO 每周给公司写邮件的重要性。我自 2006 年以来，一直每周日在晚上给我所管理的团队/公司发送一封邮件。以下是我从中得到的一些经验： 持续性： 无论发生什么，每周都要写。领导者常常低估“可预测性”对团队的重要性。我记得有一次我生病了，邮件晚了一天才发，我们有位员工给我发短信问：“一切都还好吗？” 简单的格式： 多年来，我不断调整内容结构，最终定下了这样的格式： * 本周你需要知道的 3 件事 * 本周推荐的一篇文章 * 本周的公司价值观 * 我下周的计划 * 我工作之外正在关注的东西 下面分别展开来说： 必须知道的事项： 在任何公司——无论大小——每周都会发生很多事。我会强迫自己思考：有哪些 3 件最重要的事情，是我希望每一位员工都知道的？ * 有时候是关于新版本的发布； * 有时候是即将到来的活动； * 有时候是董事会会议里发生的内容。 本周推荐文章： 我非常喜欢“一起学习”这个理念。我们在 Slack 上会分享很多内容，但我希望强调一篇所有人都应该读的博客或社交媒体帖子。 本周价值观： 我们有 5 条公司价值观，而且我们非常重视它们。我会在每次邮件中挑一条出来，讨论我们如何在日常工作中真正践行这一价值观。 本周计划： 我的风格是高度透明。我的日程表一直对团队公开。但我希望大家还能看到一个我本周重点关注事项的总结——尤其是我将要会见的客户。 工作之外： 这里可以分享我和孩子做的事情、我正在读的书、我去看的演唱会等等。向团队展现你的“人性面”有着极大的价值。 自我反思： 这个过程对我来说最有价值的一点，是它迫使我回顾自己上一周做了什么、接下来要做什么。有时候我开始写邮件时会发现：“哇，我好像什么都没完成——根本没什么可写的。”那一瞬间就能把我敲醒。 个性化： 我真的把它做成了属于自己的东西。标题用的是我自创的文字梗 ——“Mehtaphysical Musings（Mehta式形而上沉思）”。里面充满各种宅味的物理学和哲学类比，我敢肯定有些人看到都会 cringe（笑）。但那就是 100% 的我。我认为这非常重要。 Investor @gokulr recently had a great post about the value of weekly founder/CEO emails to the company. I've sent a Sunday night email to the various teams/companies I've run every week since 2006. Here are some things I learned: 1. Consistency: Do it every week, no matter what. It's hard for leaders to appreciate how important predictability is for teams. I remember one time where my email came out a day later because I was sick and one of our employees texted and said "is everything ok?" 2. Simple Format: Over the years, I iterated on the content. Eventually I settled on: * 3 Things You Need to Know * 1 Post of the Week * 1 Company Value of the Week * My Plans for the Week * What I'm Into Outside of Work Clicking into each of those: 3. Need to Know: There is so much that happens in any company - big or small. I forced myself to think about what are the 3 most important things that I want every employee to know. Sometimes it was about a new release. Or an upcoming event. Or what happened in the Board Mtg. 4. Post of the Week: I love the idea of learning together. We'd share a ton on Slack, but I wanted to emphasize one blog or social post that everyone should read. 5. Value of the Week: We had 5 company values and were passionate about them. I'd try to talk about one each time and how we can live them. 6. Plans for the Week: My style is extreme transparency. My calendar was always shared. But I wanted folks to get a summary of what I was focused on - especially customers I was meeting. 7. Outside of Work: This could be things I'm doing with my kids, a book I'm reading, a concert I went to, etc. There is so much value in showing your team your human side. 8. Reflection: The best part of this process for me was that I was forced to reflect on what I did in the last week and what I was going to do. Sometimes, I'd start my email and be like "wow I am not getting a lot done - there's nothing to talk about." That would wake me up. 9. Personalization: I really made it my own. The title was my play on words - "Mehtaphysical Musings." It would be full of nerdy physics and philosophy analogies that I'm sure would cause people to cringe. But it was 100% me. I think that goes a long way.
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投资人 @gokulr 最近发了一篇很好的帖子，谈到创业者/CEO 每周给公司写邮件的重要性。我自 2006 年以来，一直每周日在晚上给我所管理的团队/公司发送一封邮件。以下是我从中得到的一些经验：
持续性： 无论发生什么，每周都要写。领导者常常低估“可预测性”对团队的重要性。我记得有一次我生病了，邮件晚了一天才发，我们有位员工给我发短信问：“一切都还好吗？”
简单的格式： 多年来，我不断调整内容结构，最终定下了这样的格式：
- 本周你需要知道的 3 件事
- 本周推荐的一篇文章
- 本周的公司价值观
- 我下周的计划
- 我工作之外正在关注的东西
下面分别展开来说：
必须知道的事项： 在任何公司——无论大小——每周都会发生很多事。我会强迫自己思考：有哪些 3 件最重要的事情，是我希望每一位员工都知道的？
- 有时候是关于新版本的发布；
- 有时候是即将到来的活动；
- 有时候是董事会会议里发生的内容。
本周推荐文章： 我非常喜欢“一起学习”这个理念。我们在 Slack 上会分享很多内容，但我希望强调一篇所有人都应该读的博客或社交媒体帖子。
本周价值观： 我们有 5 条公司价值观，而且我们非常重视它们。我会在每次邮件中挑一条出来，讨论我们如何在日常工作中真正践行这一价值观。
本周计划： 我的风格是高度透明。我的日程表一直对团队公开。但我希望大家还能看到一个我本周重点关注事项的总结——尤其是我将要会见的客户。
工作之外： 这里可以分享我和孩子做的事情、我正在读的书、我去看的演唱会等等。向团队展现你的“人性面”有着极大的价值。
自我反思： 这个过程对我来说最有价值的一点，是它迫使我回顾自己上一周做了什么、接下来要做什么。有时候我开始写邮件时会发现：“哇，我好像什么都没完成——根本没什么可写的。”那一瞬间就能把我敲醒。
个性化： 我真的把它做成了属于自己的东西。标题用的是我自创的文字梗 ——“Mehtaphysical Musings（Mehta式形而上沉思）”。里面充满各种宅味的物理学和哲学类比，我敢肯定有些人看到都会 cringe（笑）。但那就是 100% 的我。我认为这非常重要。
Investor @gokulr recently had a great post about the value of weekly founder/CEO emails to the company. I've sent a Sunday night email to the various teams/companies I've run every week since 2006. Here are some things I learned:
- Consistency: Do it every week, no matter what. It's hard for leaders to appreciate how important predictability is for teams. I remember one time where my email came out a day later because I was sick and one of our employees texted and said "is everything ok?"
- Simple Format: Over the years, I iterated on the content. Eventually I settled on:
- 3 Things You Need to Know
- 1 Post of the Week
- 1 Company Value of the Week
- My Plans for the Week
- What I'm Into Outside of Work
Clicking into each of those:
- Need to Know: There is so much that happens in any company - big or small. I forced myself to think about what are the 3 most important things that I want every employee to know. Sometimes it was about a new release. Or an upcoming event. Or what happened in the Board Mtg.
- Post of the Week: I love the idea of learning together. We'd share a ton on Slack, but I wanted to emphasize one blog or social post that everyone should read.
- Value of the Week: We had 5 company values and were passionate about them. I'd try to talk about one each time and how we can live them.
- Plans for the Week: My style is extreme transparency. My calendar was always shared. But I wanted folks to get a summary of what I was focused on - especially customers I was meeting.
- Outside of Work: This could be things I'm doing with my kids, a book I'm reading, a concert I went to, etc. There is so much value in showing your team your human side.
- Reflection: The best part of this process for me was that I was forced to reflect on what I did in the last week and what I was going to do. Sometimes, I'd start my email and be like "wow I am not getting a lot done - there's nothing to talk about." That would wake me up.
- Personalization: I really made it my own. The title was my play on words - "Mehtaphysical Musings." It would be full of nerdy physics and philosophy analogies that I'm sure would cause people to cringe. But it was 100% me. I think that goes a long way.
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