Executive Leadership
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 7 episodes
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Sanchez: Five management layers filter out forty percent of company truth
“The truth that you actually get is the truth times how honest people are with you times how many layers you have in the company. And so each layer passes along, I don't know, let's say, 90% hard truth. That sounds fine. But 90% across five layers is .59%. But …”
Singer: Product teams do not need quarterly alignment if shipping consistently
“The other thing I've seen is when the team is just continuously delivering meaningful things, it doesn't have to line up. Because from the executive level, if you are CPO or CTO, or I mean, in these bigger cases, it's more like, you know, VP in some area, but …”
de Milliano: Starting an early-stage company doesn't teach executive leadership
“I don't think you learn much starting a company early on about being an executive.”
Friedberg: Executive leadership is about organizational success, not coddling employees
“My job is not to coddle my employees. My job is to lead my employees so that our organization, our team wins and we achieve our mission. That's the objective. It's not to create a family workplace for everyone to be happy all the time. It's to help the organiz…”
Narayanan: Executive Performance Falls Into Three Stage-Based Categories
“I think of it as from an exec perspective, I think there are three types of execs. People who know how to take companies from bad to okay. And people who know how to go from okay to good. And there are people who are good at going from good to great.”
Narayanan: No Single Executive Can Perform Both Turnarounds and Scaling
“You actually need to go inside a company, you need to do both. But not the same person can do it. You can't get the same person to do both. They don't even think like that.”
Executives will inevitably anger at least 30% of their organization
“30% of the people always going to hate you. It doesn't matter what you say. You're always going to be pissing off like minimum of 30%, like all the time.”