Fisher: Workplace Meritocracy Often Fuels Destructive Internal Competition
Justin Fisher · They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon? · Jul 17, 2021 · at 16:50
RiskScout CEO Justin Fisher reflects on key organizational lessons learned over his career during an interview with Nathan Latka.
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“Sometimes meritocracy builds internal struggle, internal competition, right? I've been in way too many businesses where it's like sales versus development or sales versus operations or what have you, right? And it's always about who's going to make the numbers, who's going to make president's club and end up on the beach.”
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