As the company grows and the organization scales, your role within the organization will change. It will become a lot narrower and more focused and this frustrates most early employees. But that doesn’t mean you’re having less impact, you are probably having a larger impact in a more focused area. So, you’re right, if you’re just heads down and do

Foundations and planning for goals and resources A comprehensive hiring approach Intentional team development Feedback and performance mechanisms

To create this formal management system, start by delineating separate teams, each with a manager. The organizational structure should be determined by who attends what team meeting. The leadership team typically consists of the following people: CEO Head of product Head of engineering Head of sales Head of marketing Head of customer success Head o

An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project. An engineer might get stuck waiting for a decision or a manager may think she doesn’t have authority to make a critical purchase. These small, seemingly minor hesitations ca