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Leader Spotlight: Structuring teams to minimize dependencies, with Nick Ehle
- Nick Ehle, SVP of Product at TeePublic and Redbubble, suggests designing teams and organizations to be as empowered as possible to minimize dependencies.
- He emphasizes the importance of building a high-performing team by instilling trust, clear expectations, and matching individuals to their expertise and motivations.
- He suggests setting clear expectations per level based on job traits and offering people autonomy to succeed.
- Ehle recommends open and honest communication maintaining operating rhythms as important practices.
- He suggests having annual goals and company-level objectives for teams to follow.
- He talks about looking for grit, data-driven mentality, and leanness in the people he is hiring for his team.
- Ehle emphasizes providing full-stack teams to enable quicker and seamless delivery without dependencies.
- He also suggests setting KPIs for each team to check how they are performing to meet their expectations.
- He suggests minimizing dependencies as much as possible by structuring teams and organizations to be as autonomous as possible, enabling them to avoid conflicts or small overlaps.
- Ehle highlights the velocity as the most important factor for innovation, lowering the stakes of projects.
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