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...handled the transition and the individual we've selected to come in to be the next CEO of Hightower. I'm excited for him to join us here in a few short days. I will continue to stay on the Hightower board
...leadership. And the other half of the deals are where we're backing an incumbent team and we're holding that team to the same standard. We're often getting into situations in which a business has been held back.
Even in cases where we're bringing that new team in, they're developing that or have developed that well ahead of the deal closing with whoever's incumbent to that business. And we're looking for those people who are incumbent to step up and do that
...leadership and your style of leadership in that journey? I knew I wanted to be in the deal business. I never thought about being in the management business. I learned on the fly. We didn't have a management structure. This wasn't GE where we had a ma
So with all of this growth and particularly in the bunch of years you've been at the helm, you've recently decided that it's time to move on. And we'd love to hear about your decision process. Most of what you hear is just excitement about this space
...transition right now and who's already locked in their key people but has identified, okay, these are the roles we have to fill. We we're here at Super Bowl week, so, you know, we need a left tackle. We need we need we need strong safety, whatever it
Part of it is learning how to scale. Mhmm. But part of it is also a commitment to showing people that you can do that in a way that is still kind. And I think that there has been a real change in the last twenty, thirty years, certainly over the cour
...making this transition, but this isn't really about me. I think it's sort of a pattern that your listeners would find useful. In general, your best executives are the ones that you can mostly toss into any challenge, and they will bring order to chao
...leadership over both engineering and product at the same time. And, I remember Park sort of Parker sort of slumped down in his seat and said, oh, fuck. I have to run another search. And I said, no. Like, the gig's up. I'm gonna go do it. And he reall
...realm, the succession of the leadership and ownership.
The other thing that you're learning about being a leader at a larger company is you're a systems engineer. Because you still gotta be able to sniff out bull and, like, look see around corners and pivot. But you also have to become a sysengine engine
...that leadership is like a really conscious effort. The best leaders are very, very conscious about how they're showing up. They're very conscious about what they're saying, when what they're not saying, when they're saying it, what tone they're using
And then things don't work out, people churn out the business. And often, there's no real fault here, but somehow it's just not worked out. And I'm I'm curious what you've seen in terms of avoiding that or moving beyond that. I think it's it's very d
for a mission that's usually three to five years. Among those criteria, when you mentioned getting the right CEO in place to the succession or just having the right team in place, Everyone's trying to figure out getting the right people. What does th
We increasingly became convinced that this process was failing. The strategy that we had invested in had clearly shifted with the change in personnel over time as this firm had experienced retirements. And we got to a true loss of faith in the proces
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