Wired peeks behind management style at Golden Triangle's Convercent

Wired peeks behind CEO Patrick Quinlan's unique offer to his employees at the Golden Triangle's Convercent.

Excerpt:

RJ Owen had a bad feeling about this meeting.

It was a Monday afternoon, a couple weeks ago, and Owen -- a product manager and design lead with Denver-based software company Convercent -- had been called into a company-wide meeting with co-founder and CEO Patrick Quinlan. Quinlan began by saying that by the end of the meeting, every employee was going to have to make a choice. Owen rolled his eyes. He figured they’d all be asked to step forward and affirm their allegiance to the company mission -- maybe even write their names on the wall as way of professing their love for the job at hand. He hated that sort of thing.

Over the next two hours Quinlan -- a former U.S. Army Airborne Infantryman -- outlined the state of the company and delivered a profanity-laden pep talk that did little dispel Owen’s fears that he was in for a cheesy team-building exercise. But then Quinlan picked up a stack of envelops. "Inside each envelop is a two-month severance check," he told the room. "If this is not the job you want, if you don’t wake up in the morning to walk into this room to build a better company, go cash it."

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