#99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego

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Today I'm talking with Chris Cordle, most recently the Chief of Staff at Slack. Chris has spent the past twelve years working directly with some of the best CEOs during her time at Yahoo, Twitter, and Slack. She joined Slack and Twitter when they were small and helped them scale into public companies. Now she works at Devenue Collaborations, a firm dedicated to helping rapid growth CEOs scale. We're gonna talk all about her upbringing in a religious cult, and how that shaped her world, automatic rules for success, lessons about decision making and scaling, why it's hard for founders to scale in particular, the common patterns to success, and so much more. You'll walk away from this episode with a new perspective on leadership and practical tools that you can implement today with your team.

It's time to listen and learn. You grew up in an extremely religious environment, like a very closed system, you might even call it a cult. How has that influenced how you see the world? Well, to start off, let me explain what that was like and uh cult are very big these days. Lots of T V shows about them. So, you know, my thunder is stolen a little bit here, but it was

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