Sherrell's a Leader of a Fast Growing Start Up

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Gougl sheril took the job at gougle in two thousand one and moved to silican valley. Her title was business unit general manager, which sounds important. Incidentally, gougle didn't have any business units to manage. She adjusts to this strangely amorphose team by her third minute on the job. And that's the reaction time she'll need, because every plan is made to be broken.

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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