The management skills that got you to 30 people won't scale you to 100
“What do people have to learn from their own mistakes, or is there a way people can just listen to the advice and make that shortcut?”
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being better managers of a of a scaling organization beyond 30 or even, you know, a thousand people? You know? What do people have to learn from their own mistakes, or is there a way people can just listen to the advice and make that shortcut? I mean, I think that's super personal. Like, I learned from doing. It's really hard for me to learn from listening even though I try to listen a lot. You know? Like, it's I I'm definitely a doer, and it took me a while to realize, like, I can't deal with the amount of, for instance, incoming volume that Myspace represented from a day to day basis on decisions that had to get made or emails that had to get cleared or deals that had to get done. And so that took that took learning from me. I think many founders kind of have to go through this progression of, like, the skill set it takes to build a ten, five, 30 person company is different than going from 30 to a 100 people. That's different from going from, you know, a CEO to a board CEO, etcetera, right, or even a public company CEO. So there are these phases, I think, of management. Many entrepreneurs don't get to experience all those three phases because either at the earlier stages, the companies go out of business,
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Mike Jones reflects on the personal challenge of scaling management skills as companies grow, sharing his experience with MySpace's overwhelming operational demands. He explains how the skill sets required change dramatically at different company phases - from 5 to 30 people, then 30 to 100, and beyond to board-level leadership.
Why this clip
This clip offers valuable insight into the often-overlooked challenge of how founders must evolve their management approach at different company stages, backed by real experience from a high-growth company.
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