Rules of the garage
The rules of the garage are a set of eleven rules that Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina used in 1999 to reinterpret the HP Way work ethos that Bill Hewlett and David Packard set when they founded Hewlett-Packard (HP). Fiorina felt that the traditional HP Way was too limiting in the modern corporate world, and that it needed to be updated.[1]
Background
The rules were first articulated in 1999 by newly appointed HP CEO Carly Fiorina, and they were later used in a Hewlett-Packard ad campaign.[2] The name was a reference to David Packard's garage in Palo Alto, in which Packard and Bill Hewlett first founded the company after graduating from nearby Stanford University in 1935.[3]
The Eleven "Rules of the Garage"
The eleven rules are:[2]
- Believe you can change the world.
- Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
- Know when to work alone and when to work together.
- Share — tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues.
- No Politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.)
- The customer defines a job well done.
- Radical ideas are not bad ideas.
- Invent different ways of working.
- Make a contribution every day. If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
- Believe that together we can do anything.
- Invent.
References
- ^ Johnson, Craig (November 2008). "The rise and fall of Carly Fiorina: an ethical case study". Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. 15 (2). SAGE Publications: 188–196. doi:10.1177/1548051808320983. S2CID 145194793.
- ^ a b Abell, John C (January 3, 2009). "Rules of the Garage, And Then Some". Wired. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ^ Malone, Michael S (2007). Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company. New York: Portfolio. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-1-59184-152-4.
