Hi everyone,
Today we will explore how tech's most influential CEOs are ditching management "best practices" - and why some are succeeding while others are setting themselves up for failure.
What you'll learn:
Why the anti-one-on-one movement is spreading from Nvidia to Airbnb to Linear (and what these CEOs know that others don't)
The hidden cost of "innovative" management structures - from holacracy to flat hierarchies - that no one talks about
A battle-tested framework to evolve your leadership without falling for management fads or destroying what's working
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The Story: The Management Rebellion
Last month, three of my most successful clients caught the management revolution fever.
One runs a deep-tech unicorn. Another bootstrapped to $50M. A third is the CEO of a Series B SaaS company. All of them were ready to throw out their entire leadership playbook.
Why?
They'd just discovered they were in good company:
Jensen Huang: 60 direct reports, no one-on-ones at Nvidia
Brian Chesky: Ditched regular one-on-ones at Airbnb to avoid playing "therapist"
Karri Saarinen: Replacing one-on-ones with group meetings at Linear
"This is the future," they told me. "Traditional management is dead."
Then one dropped the real bomb: "I want to go back to pure founder mode. Be more hands-on. More involved."
I had to stop him right there.
