GitLab CEO Shadow, 5 Oct 2020

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From YouTube: CEO Shadow Program experience

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What the CEO Shadow Program taught me.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/shadow/

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Hi, I'm philipp for distinguishing general gitlab, and today I'm going to talk to you about the sea of shadow program. I had the chance and the great pleasure to do the ceo for the program during a short but intense period of two weeks.

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First of all, I would like to thank our ceo sid for this fantastic opportunity, as well as everyone who contributed to it, cherry and christie, our executive business administrators for everything that they are doing behind the scenes of all the meetings, but also, I would like to thank my two co-shadows chris and martin.

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It was a wonderful experience once in a lifetime experience, I had a chance to learn about the functions at gitlab and see our values in action.

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For example, I could see how the ceo can make our teams more effective. We are heavily driven by objectives and key results. It means that we have many key performance indicators and a lot of different metrics.

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I witnessed multiple times since uh making sure that everyone was aligned with the right metrics. It's easy to get swamped in them, especially if teams are using different ones or different versions of the symmetrics.

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The levers can be different, leading to non-coordinated reforms.

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I could also experience how we can step up our game by going more sick and avoiding long meetings to make decisions. Preparation is the key before every meeting. Everyone is aware of the agenda and the voluntarily the questions from the other participants.

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It sounds because it requires a lot of anticipation, sometimes watching a short presentation video the day before, but in the end it helps jumping directly to the point starting a meeting with the presentation, drifts, the focus of the engine and leads to more casual conversations, because not everyone has to focus. At the same time, I could see some very strategic meetings being held in 25 minutes, sometimes with more than 20 items covered.

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It was great also to see how sid uh is a servant leader with these reports. It doesn't doesn't drive one once uh it's the reports, time and they're responsible for organizing the agenda either multiple times. People saying where do we start and see is answering it's your meeting. That was great to see that in action.

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Finally, I really loved.

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To see how transparency is always in its mind, in everything, we're doing, but also in the relationship with the with invent stores in other ways being used to the way of conducting business at gitlab being transparent is hard from the security standpoint, but also financial, legal and so on, but in the end it makes everyone in the company feeling included and more inclined to contribute thanks for watching. If you are interested in this program, please follow the link in the description of this.

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