Bill McKeon
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224 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Jun 2021
Bill McKeon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let me give you a couple examples.
When we think about young companies and startups, and I've worked in major corporations as well as startups,
So in the United States, stock options is everything.
People will take very low salaries to get stock options with the hope that the company flips and those stock options are worth in many cases, millions.
What I found in the UK when we had stock options, it was really interesting.
I had employees coming to me asking to trade stock options for more vacation time.
And it really struck me because that would have never happened in the United States.
But in the UK, vacation time was really important to people, so important.
And when I talked about the numbers of how many millions they could be passing on, it really didn't resonate.
In Stockholm, for example, what was really important to them was title.
So if you offered to give someone a raise of $20,000 or $30,000, they were much more interested in how their title would change.
And when you understand kind of in a country, a socialist country, where
most of the income is taxed and many things are provided for, that the pecking order of titles was much more important.
So what I've learned is not to assume anything that if you don't really cut to the real hopes and desires and dreams of the people, that you really can't lead them because those things are so important on how they resonate and how they're motivated.
So
That's been one of the things that I've really kind of looked back on on that journey.
You always want to hire incredibly talented people.
And that's something that I've invested heavily in.
When I arrived here, it was largely male-dominated, older people in leadership positions.
And now I'd say it's almost been a complete swing opposite of that, that
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