Executive Team
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Payne: Executive teams are dysfunctional if members prioritize their functional department
“The number one way you can tell is ask them what team they're on. And if they don't say that team, if they say I'm on the eng team or I'm on the marketing team on the product team, then you've got a dysfunctional team, right?”
Mirzadegan: Founders Speak More Candidly Than Executives Because They Have No Boss
“Founders and CEOs have an authority to speak in a different way than somebody on the executive team. Where they can just talk. And so much of what I want to do is have like an earnest and honest conversation. And It's harder to do that when you're thinking, wh…”
Boards should replace incapable executive teams rather than making their decisions
“And I always look at like if the board believes that the executive team is not capable of making the right decisions, they should change the executive team instead of trying to make the decisions.”
Vohra: No CEO gets their executive team right on the first try
“No CEO ever gets their executive team right on the first try.”
De Milliano: High-functioning executive teams maintain unified consistency like parents
“A high functioning executive team is like that. They're like, they're consistent. You feel like you're going to get the same answer from every single executive, but you also know that like the how they do it or like how they're going to get it done is like the…”
Dave Morin: Long-Tenured Tech Leadership Teams Possess a Distinct Communication Advantage
“An executive team that's been together for a long time, Theoretically has an ability to communicate that new people that have just joined the org do not have. And so is that the other side of this argument that, you know, some of these companies that have that…”
Codie Sanchez pays most of her executive team more than herself
“In fact, I'm probably one of the least well-paid people at my media company right now, where I pay most of the executive team, if not all of them, more than I make.”
Winters: Startups going public typically swap startup executives for public-company executives
“When you go public, you tend to rotate over your executive team and get public company execs versus startup execs.”
Perri: Uninformed boards signal the need for a true CPO
“If your executives and your board are telling you that the person who's communicating those things to them are usually not chief product officer level, right? Like if you are, if your executives don't know what you're doing, that's a big problem. So that's usu…”
Delatorre: Execs should prioritize peer relationships over their own functional teams
“High functioning exec teams are highly empathetic of each other, and more so than they are of their own group. Meaning, as CRO, if I'm part of a high functioning team, I have a stronger relationship with the CFO, and the head of product, and the head of market…”