169 (PX5) Continuity: Creating a Company Operating System | #Varsity

Accounting High: Sophomore Year

Episode 169

FACULTY: Dave Olsen

CLASS: #VarsityTips

TITLE: People Experience Pt 5 (PX5) Continuity: Creating a Company Operating System

In the final episode of our People Experience Series on VarsityTips, Scott interviews “Coach” Dave Olsen from Nimbl, focusing on optimizing continuity and company operations to enhance the overall people experience. The episode covers various aspects of building a strong team, including sourcing talent, defining the tech stack, and streamlining meetings for maximum productivity.

• Introduction

• Explaining continuity as the catch-all category to enhance people experience

• Explaining the Company Operating System for smoother operations.

• Leveraging asynchronicity for increased focus and flexibility.

• Defining the tech stack as a hierarchy of urgency for efficient workflow.

• Making meetings more useful by defining their purpose and structure.

• Emphasizing the importance of clear documentation for better collaboration.

• Sourcing talent from within the organization to build a strong team.

• Proactively reaching out to potential hires to expand the talent pool.

• Developing scalable recruiting systems to manage the hiring process effectively.

• Defining the recruiting demographic and screening potential candidates.

• Involving the entire team in the interview process before skills assessment.

• Summarizing the episode and providing additional resources.

• How to reach Dave

Shout Outs:

Slack, Zoom, Front, Karbon, Asana, Confluence, Shane at Nimbl, Radical Candor, what you do is who you are by Ben Horowitz, A World Without Email by Cal Newport

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