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Ron Goldin

What Ron Goldin thinks about management

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Design leader who has led design at Google, Shopify and Uber Eats, and co-founded the brand-partnerships product MTCHMKR.

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  1. Our readingA player coach manages a smaller team while building together with it, rather than sitting in an ivory tower doing performance reviews and alignment meetings.

    AI alignment

    Their wordsYou're managing the team, but you're also with the team. Like you're building things together. you know, you're kind of not in this ivory tower just doing performance reviews and alignment meetings while the IC's are doing the things the IC's do

    ↗Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leaderyoutube.com 1st of 19 in this recording

  3. Our readingManagers who are curious and crafty can do a lot more with their 40 hours, because prototyping is now about a hundredth of the effort it used to be.

    Their wordsyou can do that in like 100th of the speed. And so I think for managers who are curious and crafty, they can do a lot more with their day with the 40 hours that they have

    ↗Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leaderyoutube.com 3rd of 19 in this recording

  5. Our readingManagers having the courage to push on AI tools and dogfood them, instead of sending them to the team and hoping they work, matters.

    courage

    Their wordsthat courage of like being able to sort of push on these tools A and B dog fooding tools instead of just like sending them over to your team and hoping that they work

    ↗Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leaderyoutube.com 4th of 19 in this recording

  7. Our readingIt is a leader's responsibility to understand people's strengths and passions and to grow them into well-rounded team members.

    Their wordsit is your responsibility as a leader at a company to understand what people's strengths are, what their passions are, and to like know how to grow people in the areas to make them well-rounded

    ↗Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leaderyoutube.com 18th of 19 in this recording