Successful businesses require aligning visionary-integrator roles for growth.
Prioritize team cohesion with offsites to nurture remote culture and creativity.
Deep dives
Late Checkout's Diverse Company Ventures and Favorable Projects
Late Checkout, a holding company, is known for its diverse ventures ranging from boring marketing to design subscription services. Their COO, Theo Tabba, shares insights on the most exciting projects, shifting preferences between innovation consultancies and design subscriptions like Dispatch, illustrating continued growth and engagement.
The Art of Failing Right: Dash Project Postmortem
The discussion delves into the dismantled project, Dash, a platform aiming to connect junior designers with top companies. Despite promises of personalized feedback and innovative recruitment mechanisms, Dash fell short due to scalability challenges and insufficient quality of submissions, ultimately compelling Late Checkout to discontinue the venture.
Building a Remote Culture: Late Checkout's Retreat Strategy
Exploring the significance of offsites for team cohesion and creativity, the conversation emphasizes the value of retreats in nurturing a unified remote team culture. By prioritizing bonding activities over strict agendas, the team aims to foster collaboration, spontaneity, and long-term relationships within a distributed workforce.
Visionary-Integrator Partnership: Insights from 'Rocket Fuel'
Drawing parallels between the visionary-integrator dynamic discussed in 'Rocket Fuel' by Gina Wickman and their own roles, the hosts reflect on the importance of alignment, division of responsibilities, and mutual respect. They highlight the cohesive relationship between a visionary's big-picture mindset and an integrator's operational expertise in propelling a successful business forward.
Today Greg is joined by Late Checkout COO Theo Tabah. In this episode, Greg and Theo talk about the inner workings of Late Checkout.
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LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE: Production Team: https://www.bigoceanpodcasting.com Theo Tabah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theotabah https://twitter.com/theotabah
SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - Intro 3:21 - When to say no to projects 10:05 - Letting your team fail 15:43 - Building culture in a remote team 33:28 - Other companies as role models 37:50 - Theoisms to live by
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