Joshua FraserChief Data Nerd, Data Nerds · CEO at Data Nerds, AI & Data Entrepreneur

Thrive in Autonomy - Monday Mini Lesson #3 - Everyday Entrepreneur

Name: Thrive in Autonomy - Monday Mini Lesson #3 - Everyday Entrepreneur
Uploaded: 2024-04-01T19:30:08+00:00
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Channel: Joshua Fraser
Description: In this mini‑lesson, entrepreneur Joshua Fraser shares his personal journey from being a micromanaging CEO to embracing autonomy for his team. He…

1 Apr 2024 · 2 min

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In this mini‑lesson, entrepreneur Joshua Fraser shares his personal journey from being a micromanaging CEO to embracing autonomy for his team. He recounts how his CTO challenged his over‑control, prompting him to adopt Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with clear, measurable timelines. By letting leaders set and own their OKRs, Fraser could simply score outcomes rather than manage day‑to‑day tasks, which dramatically reduced his own burnout. He emphasizes the importance of hiring great people, using personality tests, and giving them full autonomy to grow. Fraser cites five team members who have flourished under this approach, illustrating how autonomy leads to higher performance and healthier leadership.

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Foreign. I, as an entrepreneur, micromanaged way too many freaking things. My CTO at some point came to me and said, josh, I'm handling all the technical and engineering efforts within a stated. And I was micromanaging things that I didn't fully understand. And when I let my employees thrive in autonomy and I gave them the objectives and key results and we agreed on them, it gave me so much freedom as a CEO. And after a few years of doing OKRs, it got to a point where, as the leader of the company, my leaders would come to me with their objectives and key results. We would agree on the measurements. There always had to be a timeline on it, and. And a number had to be measurable. And I just let them do whatever they want, complete autonomy. And then I would score them and grade them on the results that they produced. But I never wanted to be a micromanager. You will get extremely overwhelmed. Your burnout will happen a lot faster. And it's something that I can't stress enough for entrepreneurs today. When you're starting out your business, you're wearing so many hats. And at some point, if you're hiring great people, which we talk about in this course, how to hire great people, how to do personality tests, we go through all of this stuff. Once you get deeper into this, these are just the mini ones. I just want to give you a sliver of the things that we use to be successful. But let your employees thrive in autonomy, especially your leaders. You want to see them grow and flourish. I can name five people in my business that are quite successful now, and I feel like I let them grow into the people that they were, and they were better at what they did than having me sitting there micromanaging them. So number three is thrive in autonomy.