Fascinating, possibly apocryphal anecdote from Shopify employees of CEO Toby Lutke’s habit of randomly dropping into company Slack conversations where he will abruptly cancel or endorse projects. Intuitively, this seems like tyranny - or at least authoritarianism - yet the post
makes the case that the
job of the CEO is to make decisions, as the CEO is the one who has the widest context and closest proximity to company mission. As employees, we’re obviously not going to like this, but that doesn’t mean that the right decisions aren’t being made. Lots to chew on here!