Sarah Jones Simmer
12 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 19, 2022 by Sarah Jones Simmer · across every show →
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Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Simmer: Three Daily Reflection Questions Create Clear Remote Work Boundaries
“I do this exercise in the evenings where I try to ask myself, What am I blocking? What am I advancing? How did I make people feel? And when I can answer those questions, just even knowing the answers will give me permission to then move into a different phase …”
Apr 19, 2022
Simmer: Incoming Leaders Get One Shot to Build a Trust Foundation
“Build the foundation of trust. Otherwise you're not, you can't go back and re-engineer that, right? You get one shot at the beginning of really getting people to trust you and how you're going to layer in your vision to the growth of the company.”
Apr 19, 2022
Simmer: Shifted From Operations to Strategy to Lead Bumble's IPO
“We constructed this narrower, deeper role as chief strategy officer that would enable me to go from a team of like a 150 to four or five, and that would take on transformative strategic projects across the business, and the first one would be the IPO”
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Simmer: Operating With a Five-Year Horizon Clarifies Marginal Decision-Making
“The doctor was worried about metastasis, and she said, look, worst case, I can get you five years. And there's something very special about that five-year time frame. You know, if you had 30 days, you would change everything. And on the other end of the spectr…”
Apr 19, 2022 positive
Simmer: Treating Careers as Chapters Eases Difficult Departure Conversations
“And I think getting to a place where as business leaders and as employees, we accept that careers are going to come in chapters gives both sides a lot more freedom to have then the harder conversations when it's necessary. There shouldn't be this pressure to s…”
Apr 19, 2022
Simmer: Executives Stating Opinions Too Early Suppress Genuine Team Convictions
“One of the things that I noticed from a more tactical perspective is if I throw out an opinion too soon, Even if I'm still feeling my way around the problem, but I say like, what have you thought about it? XYZ. I find that people start. Gravitating towards you…”
Apr 19, 2022 negative
Apr 19, 2022
Simmer: Diagnosed With Stage Three Cancer Right After Bumble's Blackstone Acquisition
“So in May of I was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. I didn't have a family history. I had no reason to suspect that I would have it, and so it was very blindsiding, and this was shortly after Bumble had been acquired by Blackstone.”
Apr 19, 2022 positive
Dec 27, 2022
Simmer: A Five-Year Horizon Mental Model Optimizes Daily Life Prioritization
“There's something very special about that five year timeframe. You know, if you had 30 days, you would change everything. And on the other end of the spectrum, all of us live right now, like we've got infinity in front of us. But what if you have five years? W…”