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.@bchesky on how fast-growing companies become slow bureaucracies https://t.co/CyIPqOTPph
Lenny Rachitskyx.com
The Curse of Knowledge (aka functional fixedness): Experts in a particular system or industry can become so entrenched in their way of doing things that they struggle to recognize or adapt to fundamental shifts in their environment. Their deep knowledge and vested interests in the current system can create blind spots, making it difficult to see
... See moreI distinctly remember at Microsoft in the late 90s, walking around campus and there was just all the folks sort of saying, God, we must be God's gifts to mankind because we are so good now that the market also recognizes it, except that it was obviously the beginning of the end in some sense, right? The day hubris takes over and you're not grounded... See more
Matter
This is what I mean when I tell people “I don ’t get hired to teach you how to be a big company. I get hired to remind you to operate like a startup.”
Yes, I hire talented leaders and strong managers. But I also:
- Read all the product docs, comment on all the designs
- Review every offer... See more
claire vo 🖤x.comFor the past decade, our idolatry of startups and innovation has meant the focus has been: What can we disrupt? How fast can we grow? How big can we get? How much can we raise?
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the... See more
Founders are taught to possess enough faith that they can build something very big very fast. This creates a pressure cooker of responsibility that distorts reality to the... See more
Sari Azout • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
An example of what I call the “cascade of courage”
When a brave CEO does something that everyone wants to but no one dares to, the somewhat-brave CEOs are emboldened to join, and eventually everyone else follows suit until even the most risk-averse CEOs do it
It’s been hard for big co CEOs... See more