&gt; 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, &quot;Don&#x27;t come out until you have a payroll system. Our goal is to get it live in 60 days,&quot; he said.<p>It&#x27;s good clickbait, but why&#x27;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&#x27;re exaggering about the cloistered nature of this &quot;secret hotel room&quot; for the press.