The Future of Web Apps
Tom is speaking at FOWA this Friday the 10 October just after lunch at 13:50 - 14:25 in the Business Track. He’ll be at the event on both days, so if you would like to hook up with him there then please email him in advance at tom@nixoncminnes.co.uk or call us to arrange a meet up on 01273 648301.
The subject of his session is: “Work/life balance or blood, sweat and tears - which is the start-up way?”; he will be sharing the session with internet celebrity Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo, the world’s first human-powered search engine. He will be talking about NixonMcInnes’ democratic company culture.
For those of you who aren’t aware we have adopted a unique culture and a range of diverse internal working practices. At NixonMcInnes we believe in employing a range of unusually open and empowering policies to attract and retain the very best talent in order to deliver to our clients the very best quality work.
Our culture is based on a number of democratic principles:
- FREEDOM: To work the hours that suit you (very flexible working policy - way more than flexitime and duvet days); wear what you want; change and improve things.
- TRANSPARENCY: Open book accounting so everyone knows what everyone else earns and how much profit is made; open communication and distaste for secrets.
- PARTICIPATION: Flat company hierarchy; voting on key company decisions; guest seats at company board meetings.
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Regular one-to-one catch-ups with a manager; a training budget; books and subscriptions; conferences; personal development planning; a chance to shape your career within a successful, growing company with a wide range of promotion opportunities.
- REWARDS: excellent salary; company profit-related bonuses; 24 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and a company vote on additional holiday at Christmas. We like a nice team lunch on the company regularly too.
- FUN: Life’s too short to focus only on money. The directors are clear that the company exists to do enjoyable work with interesting clients. We’re not aiming for a sell-out or a NASDAQ listing, but we are ambitious in our desire to build a world-class team producing the best work.
Another difference about NixonMcInnes is how the people in the team explain technology. The team believe that the principles and ideas behind the very latest online technologies and trends can always be explained in a simple and enjoyable way, free of extravagant buzzwords and difficult terminology.
In short, part of the thing we call social media goodness is the realisation that our clients are human and so are we. So we aim to keep things as simple as possible for them and for ourselves and be as helpful as we can at the same time.
If you like these ideas and have a feeling that you’d like to come and work with us, then keep an eye out on our blog for announcements like this (we realise the closing date of this particular position has passed, however if you strongly feel you are the person we are looking for then please do still get in touch).
Oh and it wouldn’t be right if we didn’t take this time to invite you to sign up to our series of free eBooks, or have a look at some of our clients and projects here.
So keep an eye on our company blog and feel free to contribute a post or two.
We look forward to meeting you.
Ruth wrote this on 08.10.08 –
It's filed in the Events & conferences, NixonMcInnes box
On October 9th, 2008 at 8:49 am, Matt Hill responded:
Congrats to Tom on being invited to FOWA! Impressive. Looking forward to a follow up on the presentation.
On October 17th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, Barry responded:
Carsonified have posted videos of the talks, so you can now see Tom in action:
http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/jason-calcanis-tom-nixon/
On October 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm, Matt Hill responded:
Nice presentation, good to see the different views. I tend to err with Tom, but Jason puts forward compelling arguments.
Loved the headset Tom. I thought you were gonna go all Vogue on us at one point! :-)