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Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe) - Scaling Operations and People

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

CHAPTER

The Importance of Manager Role in Scaling Your Company

If everybody's like, I'm aligned on this way of operating from top to bottom, just like the OKRs at Google, you're going to see that you get a lot more velocity. And then by the way, influence and change them if you think they're actually causing your team, your company to head in the wrong direction. The manager role is to understand all of these systems. You'll also have compensation systems, hiring practices. But be able to honor them and replicate them down to the lowest node that you can. Because then you are going to all be running faster.

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