Company Culture
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Company Culture
How we manage
How we manage At our company, we strive to make every team member the best version of themselves. This is a very difficult thing to do, and so it's helpful to articulate how exactly we do it. Managing a person or a team is a very unnatural job. As an individual, your performance is typically mea...
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2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights
Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out. This often happens when leaders are hesitant to explicitly give up their own power or when they want to maintain the appearance that the team is a democracy. High-performing teams have clear roles for... See more
Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out. This often happens when leaders are hesitant to explicitly give up their own power or when they want to maintain the appearance that the team is a democracy. High-performing teams have clear roles for... See more
If you look closely, all these problems fundamentally come from:
#1 and #2 are inevitable results of having more... See more
- Decreased skin in the game, which reduces team alignment
- N^2 communication, which creates need for managers and specialization, which reduces individual agency and breadth of learning
- Reduced risk tolerance, which slows everything down
#1 and #2 are inevitable results of having more... See more
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If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a