Professional Managers
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Chesky: Founder Mode requires staying in details over delegating to managers
“Founders were over-delegating their companies to these professional managers. I'm not disparaging them, but they were detaching themselves, and they were being managed, rather than managing the company. And it was really about not apologizing about how you wan…”
Epling: Product leaders lose touch when acting as purely professional managers
“The more disconnected you get from those, like when you start to become more of like a professional manager, I'm just guiding the team, giving strategy and things. I think you lose a lot in making sure you're building the right thing for customers. Cause if yo…”
Mackey: Professional managers view roles at Whole Foods as stepping stones
“In my experience, they're very, they're not usually mission driven. They've gotten their MBA from Harvard or Wharton or Stanford. They're very intelligent. They work hard, but working at Whole Foods or Amazon, it's just a, it's just part of their career path. …”
Friedberg: Professional managers avoid firm culture definition to minimize loss
“As companies get bigger, go public, they're larger, they bring in professional managers, and the founder, CEO steps out. They generally don't do that, right? They generally try to not do that definitional work, because they're trying to minimize loss, and not …”