How Pinterest’s friendly culture has slowed decisions and hurt growth
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Re: How Pinterest’s friendly culture has slowed decisions and hurt growth
#2There are no priorities in life more important than financial growth and making quick business decisions. /s
Re: How Pinterest’s friendly culture has slowed decisions and hurt growth
#3There are no priorities in life more important than financial growth and making quick business decisions. /s
"This often translated to slow decision-making by committee and lack of commitment to strategic direction. Instead of being straightforward and advocating directly for what they wanted, employees were encouraged to try to gain consensus through politicking and endless rounds of meetings." -
That sounds like hell to me.
Re: How Pinterest’s friendly culture has slowed decisions and hurt growth
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Even if the decisions have taken longer, perhaps they've been better decisions? And even if the growth could be greater, they've been successful with specific types of users for specific, lasting reasons?
At other companies, "growth teams" have been given permission from the C-suite to overrule all other product teams. Sounds like at some companies the growth teams have even been given tacit permission to overrule the corporate counsel's office. These are certainly ways to speed decisions, increase growth, and attract a certain type of highly skilled and motivated employee -- and they may not necessarily be in the best long term interests of the company, all of its employees, and its customers.