I manage around 70 people in very high level. There are managers who stands the floor to get the actual work done. I just go on daily meetings, just once in a day to understand where a job stands and give them directions.<p>When I walk around floors, recently, I started hearing "do that way, steve will catch you." I think this statements are not healthy. So my team is working properly just because I catch them in review calls. This isnt correct, right?<p>I am sure I listen to them when they say things sensible. I made sure I never run beurocratic team management. Is this is normal? How can I put the "I too own the product" mindset in my team just not because team is performing that their boss asked them to do.
IMHO, people will feel that they "own" the product when they'll really _own_ the product!
I mean, when they'll have some freedom in how to do their work, when they'll be sincerely requested their opinion before taking decisions and when they'll participate in the financial benefits and risks.
If you pay a fixed salary to someone to do the work you dictate him, you'll have a subordinate, not an associate. Just to be clear, I don't consider wrong or reductive at all to offer a fixed salary; it's just that a co-founder and an employee are in a different situation: a co-founder shares your goal (success for the company), while the employee has his own goal (more money and better conditions for him) which only partially are based on the overall success of your business.