Russ Laraway

In this episode, Jeff interviews Russ Laraway. Russ is the author of When They Win, You Win, in which he outlines a data-driven approach to improving management behaviors and performance. Russ has led high-performance teams at Google, where he won a coveted management award; at (the company formerly known as) Twitter, where he and I were colleagues; and as a Company Commander in the US Marines. In this episode, we talk about how measuring behaviors impacts performance at the individual and company level; alignment among managers; executive communication; a company's mission, vision, and values; how to write a good resume; the importance of modeling good management behaviors; and other topics.