Josh Bersin of Deloitte has an excellent presentation up titled Building the Irresistible Organization.
One of my personal interests is around creating an environment for great work, including the people, environment, and culture. Josh’s ideas are some of the best I’ve seen. Here’s his integrated approach:
Meaningful Work
- Autonomy
- Selection to Fit
- Small Teams
- Time for Slack
Great Management
- Agile Goal Setting
- Coaching & feedback
- Leadership Development
- Modernized Performance Mgt.
Fantastic Environment
- Flexible, humane work environment
- Recognition rich culture
- Open flexible work spaces
- Inclusive, diverse culture
Growth Opportunity
- Facilitated talent mobility
- Career growth in many paths
- Self and formal development
- High impact learning culture
Trust in Leadership
- Mission and purpose
- Investment in people, trust
- Transparency and communication
- Inspiration
Want to build a great company? Find product/market fit, a repeatable customer acquisition process, and build a simply irresistible organization.
What else? What are some thoughts on a simple irresistible organization according to this integrated approach?
David Cummings on Startups 
I believe that one of the important factors, which is missing now in most of the companies is “star” employee motivation. There are always few who makes your company different, those should be treated as partners, get significant shares, etc… I think keeping biggest talents is the most important factor