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#147 Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes

2022/9/20
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Reid Hoffman: 本期节目中，Reid Hoffman 分享了他几十年来作为实操者和投资者的经验教训，重点阐述了快速有效决策的重要性以及企业扩张过程中容易忽视的方面。他强调，成功的关键在于快速有效地决策，这适用于各个职业领域，尤其对领导者而言更是至关重要。在企业扩张过程中，持续改进学习模式至关重要，因为成功的策略并不能保证持续成功。他分析了企业扩张过程中常见的错误，例如招聘节奏和内部晋升与外部招聘的平衡问题。Hoffman 还分享了他个人能力提升的经验，包括通过团队协作、技能提升和工具运用等方式来提高效率。他认为，不同的沟通和决策场景需要选择合适的工具和形式，例如书面报告、PowerPoint 演示或简单的要点列表。他强调，领导者应该帮助员工发挥潜能，相信他们的善意，并引导他们做出对团队更有利的决定。Hoffman 还分享了他对“alpha 倾向”的理解，以及如何在团队建设和组织管理中有效利用这一特性。他认为，成功的董事会会议需要关注公司治理和发展策略，并超越媒体报道，深入了解公司实际情况。他还强调了在危机时期，董事会会议需要关注CEO和管理团队对危机的应对能力，并积极寻求外部视角和解决方案。最后，Hoffman 阐述了快速有效决策的三个原则：速度、简洁性和授权，并分享了他如何培养自己快速有效决策能力的技巧。

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Reid Hoffman discusses the importance of constantly evolving learning patterns in scaling, emphasizing that what got a company to a certain point won't necessarily carry it forward. He highlights the need for organizational evolution, including management structures and go-to-market strategies, and the role of financing in bringing in networks of support and knowledge.

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Few figures have shaped the way we think about business over the past 20 years more than Reid Hoffman. The co-founder of LinkedIn and former PayPal executive is also a wildly successful venture capitalist, author and podcaster, but he didn’t get to his place as a Silicon Valley giant without making plenty of crucial decisions. On this episode Hoffman discusses lessons learned from decades spent as a hands-on operator and investor, including what he knows about scaling that others miss, the three principles of decision making, how to constantly evolve your learning pattern, and why the best leaders adapt to the crisis at hand. Hoffman is perhaps best known for co-founding the professional networking site LinkedIn, which he started in 2003 and later sold for a reported $26.2 billion to Microsoft in 2016. Prior to founding LinkedIn, Hoffman was one of the first employees at PayPal, where he served as an executive vice president. He is also a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, an investor in Airbnb, the author of a series of successful business books including Masters of Scale, and the host of the podcast of the same name.

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