What does ‘making an impact’ really mean? In this episode, we explore how to make a meaningful impact, analysis paralysis, and why making mistakes can be a good thing. Tune in for one of our mostexploratory episodes yet! "Impact" is a startup buzzword, but it’s harder to know what that looks like in practice. We define impact as using our technology, talent, and teamwork to improve a situation or solve an issue. This is all important, worthy stuff, but how do we actually apply this principle in our day-to-day work? In this episode, we spoke with monday.com’s Co-Founder and Co-CEO, a CX team lead, and CX advocate, to understand what it means to be impact-driven and what it looks like when we’re not.   Lior and Eran's talk: https://www.startupforstartup.com/ww/impact-driven-leadership/

How can we practice Impact-Driven Leadership?   In the first part of this topic, Eran Zinman and Lior Krengel discussed the ideas that stand at the core of our work processes at monday.com. They talked about how important it is to focus on execution in order to succeed in our tasks, and about how perfection is only attainable through iteration. Some of the questions we received following the previous episode were about concerns we all experience regarding this topic: What if we feel we simply ‘can’t’ do something? How can we still move fast in this case? This week Lior and Eran talk about how to practice impact-driven leadership in our day-to-day, discuss our role as leaders, and share techniques for overcoming the fear of moving fast and the “I can’t” approach.      

You know when you start working on a project that seems pretty small, only to end up working on it for days – sometimes even months – more than expected? Those of you who have listened to our podcast before know that we are an impact-driven company. In practice, this means we believe in achieving perfection through iteration – investing our time in learning by executing quickly, analyzing the results, and executing again. Rather than by months on months of research. In this week’s episode, Lior Krengel and Eran Zinman talk about impact-driven leadership and how it can help us move faster.  They discuss the reasons for analysis paralysis, how we can overcome it, and why going against our intuition can actually help us in these cases. “Companies are moving so fast today and everything is so dynamic, and I think the ones that fail are the ones who stop innovating and making changes, and eventually slow down and die. The ability to move quickly is relevant whether you’re a small team or a big company, in order to stay in the game and be successful.” (Eran Zinman)  

Eight months ago we recorded an episode in Hebrew about our company culture (Episode 33 – ‘The Five Cultural Attributes of monday.com’). We spoke quite a lot about the importance of transparency and inclusion, but since the episode was recorded in Hebrew all of our non-Hebrew speaking employees couldn’t listen to what we had to say or feel a part of this episode. Eran described it accurately in our latest episode: “Culture is what we do, not what we talk about.” So as we try to learn from our mistakes and move forward, we decided to record another episode about what a business culture is – this time with both of monday.com’s founders, Roy Mann and Eran Zinman.  The five attributes we were talking about in the previous episode have turned into six well-defined attributes. This change demonstrates one of the main challenges we discuss during this episode: In what way do values change as a company grows and evolves? Should a company try and preserve its culture, or should it embrace changes that occur along the way? And what is the price it pays for choosing one approach over another? In this week’s episode, Roy Mann and Eran Zinman, monday.com’s founders, together with Lior Krengel, break down the six cultural attributes that lie at the core of monday.com’s culture. They discuss how the culture of a company is formed, what impact does the hiring process have on a culture, and why we don’t believe in hanging ‘culture posters’ on the wall.  00:36 – What is culture to you? 03:55 – Is the decision to hire ability over team collaboration the right one? 06:25 – What does culture look like for new people joining the company? 07:56 – How is culture formed? 09:15 – Does culture determine the success of a company? 11:14 – The six different areas we believe in. 14:35 – What decisions have we made that support us being product-centric? 16:14 – What does customer centricity really mean to us? 20:25 – How we define ownership in a sentence. 27:27 – What does inclusion mean at monday.com? 36:05 – What does impact look like in a daily setting? 42:01 – What is speed and why is it different for SaaS?