Sadow: A CEO's job is aligning employee goals with company opportunities
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Rob Sadow, founder and CEO of Scoop, explains his leadership framework for driving team alignment and talent retention.
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“Because my job as a founder, and I think my job as a CEO over time, is to make sure that for as close to a hundred percent of the team as possible, their career goals, their professional development objectives over the next six months, 12 months, 24 months, five years, are actually aligned with things that I believe we can deliver, are opportunities that we can create at Scoop.”
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