Whats it like, going from a one-person marketing department to today a 200-person department?
Simplest answer is that it’s very, very strange. My hands used to be on all the details of getting one thing done. Today, my hands are not really in anything. I’m almost invisible in the company. I don’t measure my impact by the meetings I attend. I measure against what gets done around here that was by nature of what I’ve said or done. You want to become almost this god-like thing, where youâre imposing your vision and values through your creativity and really just inspiring people, providing almost invisible inspiration. The best leadership is invisible. The greatest work that gets done around here, in my eyes, is the stuff that I didnât have anything to do with, that people have taken to another level. Or, it was my idea, I just threw the idea out. There’s nothing greater to me than having an idea, and then having it implemented and executed in a way that makes it even greater than the idea you had. I’ve taken the marketing team and broken it up into teams of five or six people, who
