The Values Fueling Grovo's Award-Winning Culture with Co-founder Nick Narodny by 33voices

Nick Narodny is the Co-founder of Grovo. In today's featured episode, Nick discusses scaling Grovo’s engineering team from eight to 30 team members and how he helped his team navigate the shift.

Here's what you can expect in our conversation:

- Grovo’s unique approach to establishing company values and why they combine characteristics like discipline and playfulness to identify intuitive team members
- How Grovo’s Standard of Performance fuels the team’s pursuit of excellence
- The role trust plays in creating an environment where failure is a stepping stone to achieving company goals
- Grovo’s goal setting framework and why the team “strives for the top of the mountain”
- Life as a member of The Forest - Grovo’s data, design, engineering, and product teams - and the traditions that fuel the tribe
- Why culture doesn’t change; It evolves.
- How Grovo’s weekly 'Kitchen Sink' meetings keep the team aligned, and the specific practice they use to onboard new hires
- Nick’s efforts growing Grovo’s engineering team from eight to 30 team members in 2015
- What to expect when drastically scaling your team and how to empower and support long time team members
- How to avoid hero mode when delegating tasks
- The matrix structure The Forest uses to organize and execute projects
- How to empower your managers and their influence on developing individual team members
- The importance of healthy debate and Grovo’s value in “Strong beliefs loosely held”
- The single way to give direct and candid feedback

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