Hi Leadership Community,

Most leaders do not get to stay in one kind of organization their whole career. Companies grow. Startups scale. Divisions get restructured. And what made you effective in one environment does not always travel cleanly to the next.

In this episode, Chris Lanier, Managing Director, Americas at Exein, shares what he has learned building and scaling global teams across Microsoft, Wind River, and Exein, including what actually changes between large and small organizations, and what does not.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why autonomy in small companies requires more judgment, not less oversight
• How to give trust at the start of a relationship, and when to pull it back
• How to lead global teams across cultures without losing alignment
• Why one car ride in Tuscany changed the quality of months of Zoom calls
• How to hire for attitude and aptitude when deep experience is hard to find
• What IoT and manufacturing leaders need to know about distributed device security
• Why the best leaders combine vision and confidence with genuine humility

👉 Listen now and learn what it really takes to lead when the environment keeps changing.

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Sannah

P.S. Chris shared something his 25-year-old son told him about work and passion that genuinely stopped me. It is worth hearing for yourself.