“Welcome to Whoop.” Now start making decisions! 👏🏼 Every two weeks I do a new employee onboarding meeting to talk about culture and company history. One of my favorite topics is how we can move faster as an organization. That starts with the team making decisions at every level. I like to remind new employees that we did not hire you to form committees; we hired you to make decisions. There’s a clear trade off between control and pace. Control being a leader makes every decision and pace being every person makes decisions. If you’re a startup or competing with large companies, I highly recommend creating a culture that values pace and a bias for action. Going fast is a huge differentiator for the business and it’s also a much more dynamic and exciting work environment. #whoop #onboarding #pace #culture
This is true, by empowering teams to make decisions drives innovation and agility 💯
I love control vs pace. More than 5 people on a call they don’t need me!
Paul David
3w
Agree wholeheartedly, Will. 👏🏾 Will Ahmed We’re in the midst of a culture and process revamp at Literal Humans to enshrine bias towards action/consistent delivery as one of our core values/practices. Speed of informed and thoughtful decision-making certainly isn’t everything, but it is crucial to long-term success.
Do you know the Neuroscience behind PQ? If I were you I would hire one person to lead the PQ coaching initiative and measure this effect with data from whoop. Publish it. Here is a little gift cuz you are Bo Sox fans... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-multi-million-dollar-grant-coaches-shirzad-chamine?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3Ba85GSCBKSwutQ5zCBjUAHg%3D%3D
Mark Frazer
3w
Thanks for sharing Will Ahmed!! Motivation stems from employees having control and empowerment to make a difference, and to be able to highlight this key value with your people so early in their tenure at WHOOP, will pay huge dividends in the long run. For to long I have seen leaders hold back employees, specially new employees, from making decisions due to the ‘potential’ risk. The progressive leadership in which Will displays is no doubt the reason why his company is so successful.
Megha Mookim
3w
I’ve always had trouble working with companies that choose slow deliberation over action & results. The time for committees is not competitive or compelling anymore. Glad to see that world leading brands have higher standards for themselves and their employees.
Michka Tosan
3w
Will Ahmed, whoop has one of the best technologies to come onto the market yet for improving fitness and understanding performance. Would have loved to test this when I was playing soccer in college. Also, lots of untapped potential if you ever consider moving into helping the aging generation as well! Solid tech and team! Consistently impressed.
Will, a mentor once told me, "Don't ask for permission to do your job." That made immediate sense and stuck with me. Sounds like it's the same point you're making here.
Founder @ ClassZoo, Software Engineer, Entrepreneur
3wWhat? The second sentence in paragraph 2 doesn’t make any sense.