Sacca: Google published verbatim executive meeting notes for employees to subscribe to
Chris Sacca · Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321) · Jun 12, 2023 · at 58:20
Chris Sacca, former head of special initiatives at Google, recalls the transparency practices of Google leadership that shaped his own management style.
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“They were wildly transparent and their executive meetings, they had a note taker who would take the notes and then you could subscribe to the notes from that meeting. They would be published after the end of the meeting. And you could see almost like a script, the deliberative process. Larry, Sergey, Eric, Cheryl, Shona, whoever was actually part of that decision, going back and forth and figuring it out.”
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