The title for this post is actually ironical, you pretty much own everything. This is how, for a starting company in the post 2010 years it is expected that BYOD hugely applies. This means that first the utilization of technology is at the top of things. I have worked at the a couple of places in all those there is one requirement; A laptop. However some spice it up and bring in their tablet where the company meets them at the middle by providing free wifi.
But when I talk about owning, this is not what I talk about. I talk about actually owning the company and everything else that matters. Slighly over a year ago I posted this article about how to not to create social accounts using corporate emails. This is one of the area that I have seen employees get a sense of ownership(which is good for the business) but doesn’t agree with them. I have people in my Google circle who use the company email. For one reason or another the employee leaves the company and now they have to go through the agony of having to create a whole new network simply because the didn’t exactly know what to own.
This is not restricted to email account alone but a vast array of company stuff that one feel they own. This is a state that gives people a temporary feeling that they own the company and well this leads to a bossy feeling. As I mentioned in the previous post this is what causes the quick blossoming and nipping of relationships. By working as an intern I have been often ignored as hence have had the ability to watch stuff from the sidelines as those with the bossy feeling wage their wars. But this is no different from what other budding companies have gone through. Facebook and Twitter saw people who helped start the companies kicked out. event Steve jobs was once kicked out from the company he started. If the book Hatching Twitter is anything to got by, then indeed no one owns anything at Start up unless their signature line reads: Founder.