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Dealing with the problems of scaleups

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Date Added
Mar 26, 2021 4:38 PM
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You can read this post in Spanish here.

Reid Hoffman talks in his book Blitzscaling about the sacrifices a company needs to make so it can scale aggressively fast. And when your job is to lead a team and you join a company that’s blitzscaling, nobody tells you what was sacrificed. But don’t worry. One way or another, you’ll find out.

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There may be structural problems, missing information, lack of trust between teams, poor defined business goals, lack of a unified engineering or product strategy, communication problems between departments, huge dependencies between teams, a lot of bureaucracy and the list goes on and on. I’ve faced some of these problems. I tried to solve some, I had to accept some and I’m still frustrated with others. I want to share with you how to identify and deal with some of them.