{"id":5867,"date":"2017-08-28T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2021-03-05T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:41:00","slug":"everyone-sweeps-the-floor-around-here-wisdom-from-adobes-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/28\/everyone-sweeps-the-floor-around-here-wisdom-from-adobes-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everyone sweeps the floor around here&#8221; \u2014 Wisdom from Adobe&#8217;s founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve found years\u2019 worth of inspiration in the dichotomy expressed by Adobe founders John Warnock &amp; Chuck Geschke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hands-on nature of the startup was communicated to everyone the company brought onboard. For years, Warnock and Geschke hand-delivered a bottle of champagne or cognac and a dozen roses to a new hire\u2019s house. The employee arrived at work to find hammer, ruler, and screwdriver on a desk, which were to be used for hanging up shelves, pictures, and so on.<br \/>\n\u201cFrom the start we wanted them to have the mentality that everyone sweeps the floor around here,\u201d says Geschke, adding that while the hand tools may be gone, the ethic persists today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Page 27 of <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Inside-Publishing-Revolution-Adobe-Story\/dp\/0321115643\/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g2609328962?_encoding=UTF8&amp;%2AVersion%2A=1&amp;%2Aentries%2A=0&amp;ie=UTF8\">Inside the Publishing Revolution \u2013 The Adobe Story<\/a> by Pamela Pfiffner<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NewImage-32.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve found years\u2019 worth of inspiration in the dichotomy expressed by Adobe founders John Warnock &amp; Chuck Geschke: The hands-on nature of the startup was communicated to everyone the company brought onboard. For years, Warnock and Geschke hand-delivered a bottle of champagne or cognac and a dozen roses to a new hire\u2019s house. The employee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14409,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}