Leverage Being a B+ Player - Stephen Olmstead (Chief of Staff @ InVision)
Episode description
Stephen is currently the Chief of Staff for the office of the CEO at InVision App. Stephen was an early member of the team, helping scale the org from 30 to 850+ fully distributed team members over the past 5 years. He's passionate about digital product design, building organizational infrastructure, and engaging with his community. Previously Stephen helped build out InVision’s partnerships, corp dev, product management, product research teams. He’s based in Mesa, Arizona where he was born and raised and enjoys spending time with his wife of 11 years, and 3 amazing children.
TOPICS:
- 2:17: Stephen's home office set up in a trailer
- 4:40: Work-life balance
- 11:40: Social interactions in a remote job
- 15:10: How to have private/sensitive conversations in a remote world?
- 19:47: How to have difficult conversations in a remote first world?
- 22:57: How to deliver candid brutal feedback?
- 29:39: Stephen's journey of breaking into InVision
- 38:01: Why being a B+ player is an underrated superpower
CONNECT WITH STEPHEN OLMSTEAD:
- Follow Stephen Olmstead on Twitter
- Connect with Stephen Olmstead on LinkedIn
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- Radical Candor(Book)
- Learn more about InVision
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