Nabeel S. Qureshi
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There’s a lot of alpha in being willing to do “menial” work (take notes, send out agendas, order pizza, manually inspect raw data, whatever). Beware over-delegation and being too far from the details.
edit. Eventually, I asked Prasad to review it and send it without my input. On the one hand, no big deal: It’s just a memo. On the other hand, this is the only regular representation to our CEO of what the entire People Operations team is doing. In letting go, I gave up a little bit of control. But I got back valuable time to focus on other pressin
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