The Key to Scaling a Team

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The path to scale always includes some broken promises, as sherrell would soon find out. Everything from interviews to office bace changes as you grow. A skilled manager keeps a vigilant watch for systems that are failing. But the best managers, they don't spot the changes on their own. Their team surfaces problems for them. The trick is getting them to speak up.

In just 6 years, Facebook grew to 2 billion users and 14,000 employees. How? Well, first, they hired COO Sheryl Sandberg. And she knew that to lead a fast-changing organization, you have to be as skilled at breaking plans as you are at making them. Great scale leaders know how to pivot, because every day there are new competitors, new threats, new opportunities. Sandberg shares the practical, tactical on-the-ground leadership lessons she learned while scaling at Google and Meta.

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