The Maven team is working like magic right now. 18 people and shipping constantly. Most have been here 2+ years, so we all know each other and how to work together. This was hard-fought…
The first year is always great because everything is shiny and new, but year 2-4 is a reckoning point for all teams. You expand your hiring so you get people who don’t quite fit. You start to see conflicts amongst team members. You ship features that don’t work.
We had to work hard to keep things magical. We expect team members to resolve conflicts quickly and amicably. We restructured teams based on new business realities (and let some people go). We helped grow our key ICs and pushed them by expanding their responsibilities. We reminded folks that the team is more important than any one individual.
There are many learnable skills involved in creating great teams. That’s why we’re bringing a free series on High Performing Teams to Lightning Lessons on Maven. We’ve got some amazing instructors lined up to share hands-on lessons on how teams can work better together:
- Joey Banks, former Product Designer at Webflow, Twitter, Figma
- Kate Syuma & Viktoria Kharlamova, ex-Miro growth leaders
- Marily Nika PhD, AI Product Lead at Google
- Dave & Marsden Kline, former execs at Bridgewater & Goldman Sachs
- Yan Wang PhD, Staff Applied Scientist at Samsara
- Ryan Scott, former design leader at Airbnb & Doordash
- Catt Small, Staff Product Designer at Dropbox
- Hamza Farooq, Lecturer at Stanford, founder of Traversaal
Sign up for free here: https://bit.ly/4dEjHXq. Bring your teammates!