Avoiding a Fear State During Startup Team Transition
You can’t be a hoarder of power within an organization. Once you get to a point where you feel like something is ready for lots of scale, get comfortable with letting it go so you can move on to the next building challenge.
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
When adding a new team or role, take the time to clarify a few things: What a role is, what it’s meant to serve, how existing people have been making up for the lack of that role, and how their lives are going to be changed by new people coming in — in positive and potentially negative ways.
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
for instance, it helped one executive team going through a takeover to talk about their private fears of how the new organization could “push” them out. Each person finished the sentence, “I will leave this organization in a minute if…” “… if I am asked to wait for the new corporate people to tell me what to do,” said one. “… if I don’t have enough
... See moreArt Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Reorgs are also how teams grow. I remember fondly earning the right to reorganize because we secured new funding or I found a structure that empowered an up-and-coming leader. Team members who thrive are those who figure out how to embrace the opportunities that come with change.