Jennifer Tejada
11 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 28, 2020 by Jennifer Tejada · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Aug 28, 2020 negative
Leaders without self-doubt exhibit concerning levels of arrogance and narcissism
“I think anybody who runs a meaningfully sized company or is responsible for the employment of hundreds of people or has a duty of care in a leadership role is going to doubt themselves. It's natural. And frankly, if you're not, I'd be nervous about the level o…”
Aug 28, 2020 positive
Aug 28, 2020 neutral
Uncomfortable team accountability is a muscle that must be built deliberately
“Like you have to build that muscle to be able to have an uncomfortable conversation within a team and being comfortable and holding each other accountable to goals and commitments that we've made. And that's a muscle that doesn't just come naturally. You actua…”
Aug 28, 2020 negative
Early PagerDuty meetings were overly polite and unproductive, says Tejada
“And what I found was that everybody was being very careful not to get in anybody else's backyard, not to get in anybody else's grill. And it was a very nice conversation. Meetings were very pleasant, but they weren't terribly productive. And we tended to be fo…”
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Fast decisions made with limited information outperform slower, data-heavy ones
“If you look back on decisions that you've made in the past, ones where you've had a lot of information, ones where you've had very little information and kept score, I think you would find that the quality of the decisions you made with less information is jus…”
Aug 28, 2020 negative
Going public forces executives into fear-based, short-term decision-making
“Since I've taken the company public, you're actually kind of trained and modeled to constantly be managing risk. Like, you know, if you do this, what will the street think? If this happens, then how will that impact the stock price? And it's a lot of short-ter…”
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High-growth companies almost never reach team norming due to rapid scaling
“In a high growth company, you almost never get to norming. Like there's just no stasis because the company is changing so fast because of the scaling. And so you're kind of constantly pivoting back and forth between forming and storming. And if that's uncomfor…”