Changing Organizations Have Changing Needs

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Hiring can be hard to predict just how long you'll need a given skill set. Bill gates: "I didn't have enough respect for different deep knowledge" Selina tobakwalla says it takes practiced diplomacy to navigate those decisions. Gogale was about to grow from 4,000 people to four thousand and she had to hire for uncertainty.

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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