Hierarchy
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
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Slootman operates companies through influence and merit; org charts mean nothing
“Hierarchy or charge mean nothing to us. You know, we operate through influence. If you can convince people, great. And if you can't, well, then you just can't. It doesn't matter what your title is or what organization you come from or who your boss is. So it's…”
Dignan: Command-and-control hierarchy is necessary during immediate emergencies
“There are problems in contexts where you actually need command and control because of the nature of the environment. For example, in a fire environment, In a chaos issue where you're dealing with some immediate emergency, there's no time for consensus.”
Dignan: Command-and-control management no longer applies to the most interesting work
“Most of those contexts are well figured out and are not the center of the universe anymore. That's not where most of the interesting work is happening.”
Weisbrot: Fully remote work flattens hierarchy and increases executive accessibility
“In a company where everyone is remote, everyone only sees each other on these cameras. And so everyone has equal opportunity. And so I think that's a really good way because then nobody really feels left out. Because everyone is equal in that regard. I think w…”
Leaders with firing authority hold the keys to employees' psychological safety
“And when somebody has higher fire authority,
Over another human being or set of human beings or promote, demote authority over those human beings.
They are actually have the keys to that human being psychological kingdom.”