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From The Heartbeat Podcast: Interview with Sara Sutton Fell, Founder and CEO of FlexJobs
As the founder and CEO of FlexJobs, a 100+ person remote company, Sara Sutton Fell shares with me what she learned the hard way as a leader, having started her first company when she was 21 years old.
Transcript of the interview here
Latest reads
Kill The Elephants In The Room Before They Kill You.
“A common mistake I observe in leaders of teams big and small is to aspire for peace as a default.”Written by Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance + 99U and Venture Partner at Benchmark
Give Performance Reviews That Actually Inspire Employees
“The essential question is this: ‘How do we hold people accountable for their performance in a way that is more accurate, helpful and inspiring?’”Written by Ben Wigert and Annamarie Mann, Gallup
CEOs Should Leave Strategy to Their Team — and Save Their Focus for Execution
“The common perception is that strategy is done at the top of the org chart, and execution is done below. It is exactly the opposite – let me explain why.”Written by Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review
The Angel’s in the Details
“Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.”Written by Andy Dunn, Founder of Bonobos
How to Make Executive Hires at Your Startup
“The first thing you need to figure out is whether you’re hiring someone to help search for the business model or to help execute a business model you’ve already found.”Written by Steve Blank, Entrepreneur + Creator of the Customer Development Methodology
Favorite reads
Five Moments When Saying No Is Your Best Strategy
“The first step in building your capacity to say no is to recognize some common situations that should raise a red flag.”Written by Elizabeth Doty, strategy+business
The difference between management and leadership
“Managers want authority. Leaders take responsibility.”Written by Seth Godin
Good boss, bad times
“People tend to devote a lot more energy to their boss—or to their board, even, if they’re CEOs—to figure out what is going on. “Q&A with Robert Sutton, Management Expert, McKinsey Quarterly
Don Charlton of Jazz on the Power of Candid Questions
“One of the things we talk about is ‘embrace unfairness’. We have big competitors, and we embrace them as competitors. If a competitor takes a customer from us, that’s part of business.”Interviewed by Adam Bryant, New York Times
Just for fun
Move Slowly and Fix Things
My friend and designer at Basecamp, Jonas Downey, wrote this incredibly insightful piece about software design in the 21st century.
