Organizations run on energy that dissipates from the center

Leadership → Org Design

Teams will always optimize for local comfort over company outcomes. The purest form of ambition and most intense source of energy in the business is the founder CEO. Every next concentric circle of management beyond the founder CEO has the potential to be an order of magnitude drop off in intensity.

Matt MacInnis"I deliberately understaff every project" | Leadership lessons from Rippling's $16B journey

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Supporting

People leave companies because they don't see a path to be the person they want to be.

Paul MillerdRedefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)

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Supporting

There are a few thousand PMs at Meta. They do not all report to me. I would say a few hundred of them report to me on the teams that I directly manage, but I feel responsible for the entire PM community at Meta.

Naomi GleitMeta's head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more

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With caveats

Don't make somebody the CMO, or even the head of marketing, if your marketing team is two people... You want more flexibility.

Claire Hughes JohnsonLessons from scaling Stripe

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