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From: First Round Review <review@firstround.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:29 AM
Subject: My Management Lessons from Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter & Square

View this email in your browser My Management Lessons from Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter & Square Kim Scott had one thing to do that day. She was going to price her product. It was the year 2000, she was the founder and CEO of Juice Software, and she had blocked off her whole morning to make this decision. But the moment she stepped off the elevator, she was met by co-worker after co-worker who needed and wanted to talk to her. She comforted, congratulated, and listened to each one in turn. She didn’t, however, price the product. “For a minute I thought, this is where the assholes really have the advantage,” says Scott. “But that’s not right either. Good managers give a damn.” This is just one piece of advice Scott has discovered during the last 20 years in leadership roles at places like Google, Apple, Dropbox and Twitter. At First Round’s recent CEO Summit, she shared what she believes to be the most important management lessons she’s picked up along the way. Read on to learn: The most transformative thing you can do as a manager. The conversations you must have with employees for top performance. How to make sure your company is headed in the right direction. How to know all your employees are in the right role. Click here to get started.   Popular Reads 23 Tools to Make Your Feedback Meaningful This Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70M Monthly Users with 40 Engineers The Five Mistakes Startups Makes When Building for Mobile The Brain Hacks Top Founders Use to Get the Job Done How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers Remove me from this list First Round Capital, 217 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105

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