Management & Leadership
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Management & Leadership
I spoke to an ex Shopify employee today. He told me about what employees call a “Toby Tornado”. It made me appreciate Toby Lutke (CEO) even more.
It goes like this: Toby follows random Slack channels across the company. He would sometimes drop a message in one of them and tell everyone that the project they’re... See more
Itai Damtix.comCreative and Strategic Leadership in Design Orgs—Super-Senior ICs and the Shadow Strategy Team (3rd in a series on Emerging Shape of Design Orgs), Peter Merholz
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Discussing Frank Slootman's "Amp It Up" leadership philosophy of boosting performance by increasing intensity and eliminating slack.
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Considerable slack naturally exists in organizations to perform at much higher levels. I would argue what Frank is saying here could also be applied to individuals. The considerable slack naturally exists in individuals to perform at much higher levels.
Let me go back to this. The role of leadership is to convert that lingering potential into
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Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)future.com
One of the best and most challenging lists I've seen of unhealthy vs. healthy leadership.
It's in the context of pastoral leadership, but applies to any organization.
In most companies, activity is driven by the org chart. That’s how decisions are made, communicated, and acted on. That’s why it’s hard to scale as a company grows. Deep org charts give structure to huge hierarchies of people, but they’re not great for executing on projects.
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