Andrew McAfee
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2023 by Andrew McAfee · across every show →
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Nov 15, 2023 positive
McAfee: True Ownership Means Less Cross-Functional Coordination and Hierarchy
“It's also, in some sense, the opposite of cross-functional coordination and process and structure and hierarchy. Now, I'm not saying that ownership equals chaos or equals anarchy, but it involves a lot less of all of those things than we became fond of in the …”
Nov 15, 2023 positive
Nov 15, 2023 neutral
McAfee: Employees Seek Status by Becoming Gatekeepers in Approval Loops
“One way you get status inside this thing called the company where you spend so many of your waking hours is to be in the loop. And so subconsciously, almost all the time, we humans, we want to be part of the process. We want to be in the loop. We want to be co…”
Nov 15, 2023 neutral
McAfee: Tech leaders universally rejected the idea of permanent tech monopolies
“Nobody that I talked to in the book when I asked your question and where I did a version of it and said, do you think that the current crop of companies at the top are permanent or do we have permanent dominant companies now? They all laughed at me.”
Nov 15, 2023 negative
McAfee: Overconfident leaders inevitably overinvest in expensive pet projects
“Overconfidence will make you invest way too much money in, I don't know, like the metaverse, for example, or the fire phone, or your pet project. Overconfident successful leaders will have a very strong tendency To take their organizations in bad directions, w…”