Claire Hughes Johnson
Build self-awareness to build mutual awareness. If you don’t understand yourself—your work style preferences, your motivators, your strengths, your blind spots—you’re going to have trouble being an effective manager and a leader.
Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development
Claire Hughes Johnson
We always talk about scaling companies, but companies are just collections of people. If you’re not really thoughtful about them and what they need to succeed, it’s going to be hard to succeed as a company.
Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management, Organizational Behavior
To Grow Faster, Hit Pause — and Ask These Questions from Stripe’s COO
A lot of companies don’t decide how they want to grow until they’re well into their growth phase. For a long time, your actions pull your company along, and then all of a sudden it switches — your existing business starts pushing your behavior. External forces like feature requests, the need for more customer support, the need to create a team to do X when … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Claire Hughes Johnson
If you don’t consistently teach more and more people how to make the decisions or find resolutions consistent with your company’s goals, you’re going to stall out. Trust saves a huge amount of time.
Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Training & Development, Trust
Claire Hughes Johnson
One of the biggest challenges any growing company faces is equipping employees with the information, agency and confidence to make decisions for the company on their own. As a founder or executive leader, you can’t always be there to make a call. You have to trust that others can do it in order to keep pushing the frontier of your business. To make this possible, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development
Claire Hughes Johnson
Your principles should be clear and explicit enough that the people who consult them will make the same decisions a founder of your company would. They should also be defined in a way that acknowledges potential tensions. When two principles seem to conflict, the context should tell you which principle should take precedence. In this way, your core tenets serve more as a guide to … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior
Claire Hughes Johnson
A lot of companies don’t decide how they want to grow until they’re well into their growth phase. For a long time, your actions pull your company along, and then all of a sudden it switches — your existing business starts pushing your behavior. External forces like feature requests, the need for more customer support, the need to create a team to do X when … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Claire Hughes Johnson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management, Organizational Behavior