Empowering Leaders: The Essential Role in Employee Training

This chapter explores the vital role leaders play in training and developing their teams. It highlights the need for a culture of knowledge sharing despite the challenges posed by leaders' busy schedules.

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From Square to Nextdoor, Bryan Power reveals why copying Big Tech's playbook might be your biggest mistake.

Find out why Square banned hiring from the payments industry while building a payments company. Discover how conventional wisdom about senior talent can become startup kryptonite and why the safe choice isn't always the smart choice.

Bryan Power is a veteran Silicon Valley People executive who's shaped talent strategy at tech giants like Google and Yahoo, built Square from 150 employees, and now leads People at Nextdoor where he champions innovative approaches to hiring and leadership development.

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(00:00) Intro

(00:48) Nextdoor Leadership Transition