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Hi Maggie, thanks for doing this AMA! I was reading through your LI profile and one thing that stood out is your approach to building a bench nonstop, as well as succession planning. I’d love to hear more about how you’ve approached this with teams of different sizes—what are a few things every leader should be doing or temp checking regularly? How do you think about zooming out to see the longer horizon?
Always start with the business and its goals. That’s because cookie cutting ways of building can be totally off and needlessly expensive
You have to consider the business, goals (short, midterm and long), its runway, its competitors and space
Like I do not recommend our approach on NerdWallet Content as a uniform approach. I happened to lean toward companies that think longer term, so it matches what I like to build best. If I had to, I could build a sweatshop with no bench. But I hope I never have to
Staging also is important. Like an early stage startup shouldn’t spend too much time thinking too long term. It’s ok directionally, but if you overweight on long term and don’t see what’s really in front of you that needs doing, you could have no business to run midterm haha