LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner met 330 employees to learn the company's culture. Here's the 'superpower' that makes him so popular.
His strategy? Compassionate management. For Weiner, this strategy helped to build the company from 33 million users to over half a billion in a decade. LinkedIn's founder, Hoffman picked Weiner to succeed him. Weiner's focus on understanding and getting to know employees when he started, and creating a vision, helped LinkedIn grow to about 15,000 employees.
"Before I decided on any plans going forward, I wanted to learn what was happening, and I wanted to learn as much as I could from the people who had developed the company up until that point," Weiner said to Hoffman. The LinkedIn CEO worked at Yahoo for seven years prior to joining LinkedIn, and developed his management style after attending a management seminar run by"I couldn't think of anything more important to teach than compassion. In a sense, compassion should be the platform on which everything else is taught, especially in the modern era, especially with this increasing narrative about us versus them.
"All too often, companies reward people who achieve results and those companies don't necessarily pay attention to the how [they did it] and, did they do it consistent with our culture and values."
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