> He secretly rented a room at the Marriott across the street from the corporate offices, took his best engineers to the room and told them, "Don't come out until you have a payroll system. Our goal is to get it live in 60 days," he said.<p>It's good clickbait, but why's that a good management strategy? What does it even mean? Who was it a secret from, the other employees? If the productivity gain of dropping some team members is not canceled by the losses of setting up a temporary office in a hotel room, maybe you were doing something wrong at your real office. Or you're exaggering about the cloistered nature of this "secret hotel room" for the press.