Jack Dorsey is best known as the creator of Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. His Essentialist approach to management is a relatively rare one. At a dinner I attended recently where he spoke, he said he thinks of the role of CEO as being the chief editor of the company. At another event at Stanford, he explained further: "By editorial I mean there are a thousand things we could be doing. But there are only one or two that are important. And all of these ideas... and inputs from engineers, support people, designers are going to constantly flood what we should be doing... As an editor I am constantly taking these inputs and deciding the one, or intersection of a few, that make sense for what we are doing.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. Crown/Archetype. 2020. p.156, 157.
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