Siemiatkowski: Leaders should share personal context when in bad moods
Sebastian Siemiatkowski · 20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling Europe's Most Valuable Private Tech Company, How To Motivate and Challenge Your Team Most Effectively & The Biggest Lessons From Working with Mike Moritz · Mar 1, 2021 · at 28:47
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, co-founder and CEO of Klarna, discusses managing how executive mood impacts employees and why practicing personal vulnerability prevents misinterpretation.
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“But at least what I've learned to do much more nowadays is that I'm trying, to your point about vulnerability and kind of approachability, I try to at least tell people that. If I go into a meeting, I'm just like, guys, just so you know, like, I had a quarrel with my wife this morning, or, you know, my kids Were all over me, or like, I didn't sleep anything tonight, or whatever, so at least give people a kind of an understanding.”
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