13 | 👩‍💼 Rethinking Leadership: Why Hiring for Potential Beats Experience Every Time 🚀 with Amy Gershkoff Bolles (Levi Strauss, Tradesy, Spectrum Equity)

Amy Gershkoff Bolles is a founder, former CEO, and public company board member with deep expertise in strategy and operations.In this episode of Good Revenue, host Neeta Bidwai and Amy cover:Her diverse experiences leading startups, growth stage companies, and public companies like eBay, Zynga, WPP, and Levi Strauss.How to turnaround a company in less than 1 year. The importance of building teams by hiring for potential rather than traditional experience, which leads to diverse and creative teams.How to balance strategy and operations, using data-driven metrics while understanding the limits of ROI calculations for certain initiatives.Short-term and long-term initiatives, the importance of team alignment in turnarounds, and how empathetic leadership is crucial for success.Risk vs investment calculus involves 3 vectors: balance short & long term, risk of potential upside, and holistic perspective on the total timeline in terms of risk / return.The significant challenge of representation in the tech industry and suggestions to improve diversity in executive roles and boardrooms.What sets high-performing companies apart, including clear strategic decisions and robust operational systems.Join us for actionable insights for balancing strategic initiatives and executing successful turnarounds._Where to find Amy:https://www.linkedin.com/in/amygershkoff/Where to find Neeta:https://www.linkedin.com/in/neetabidwai/Where to find Good Revenue:https://goodrevenue.io/goodrevenuehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHrhuWbpYnUwrR75H2Ip4yQ_Highlights:00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome00:16 Amy's Career Journey01:08 Building Successful Teams04:01 Diversity and Hiring Philosophy05:19 Strategy and Operations08:39 Balancing Short-term and Long-term Goals14:38 Executing Turnarounds22:05 Empathetic Leadership25:34 Challenges in the Tech Industry31:32 High Performance Companies33:58 Conclusion and Farewell_Referenced:Levi Strauss: https://www.levistrauss.com/ EBay: https://www.ebay.com/ WPP: https://www.wpp.com/ Zynga: https://www.zynga.com/ Tradesy: https://www.vestiairecollective.com/FOLLOW GOOD REVENUE ON YOUTUBE! Or wherever you get your podcasts:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHrhuWbpYnUwrR75H2Ip4yQ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/44me6PABSQ0k0GfphM70auApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-revenue/id1707461473 Web: https://goodrevenue.io/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.