Ginni Rometty
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first heard Mar 2023
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity · 2 Mar 2023
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But not when you're a couple hundred thousand people.
You got to get a lot of people to work that way.
The Blanc Club thing you're talking about.
So flatten the organization as much as possible.
Yeah, yeah.
I probably reduce the layers of management by half.
And so that has lots of benefits, right?
Time to a decision, more autonomy to people.
And then the idea of like faster clarity of where you're going.
Because you're not just filtered through so many different layers.
And I think it's the kind of thing a lot of companies, if you're big, have to just keep going through.
It's kind of like grass grows, you know, it just comes back and you got to go back down and work on it.
So it's a natural thing.
But I hear so many people talk about it, Lex, this idea of like, okay, well, who makes a decision?
You've often heard nobody can say yes and everybody can say no.
And that's actually what you're trying to get out of a system like that.
Oh, I am sure you know the answer to that.
And it is, of course, yes.
Fun to say it.
Yeah.
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