How do you maintain a high-performing team when growing from zero to 100 people
Danny Bluestone is Founder and CEO of Cyber-Duck. He started the agency in 2005 and grew it to 100 people. Last year they were acquired by CACI.
In this episode, Danny shares how he:
– Balanced the competing needs of financial performance and the all-important people aspects
– Built a culture around adaptability, accountability, selflessness and having an entrepreneurial spirit
– Embedded the right type of behaviours both when the business was small and then when it became larger
– Implemented a recruitment process as rigorous as Google’s, based on their three pillars of exceptional talent
– Created a mission for each individual in the team aligned to their business plan
– Recruited the wrong people in the early days and had to deal with a large-scale team rebellion
Danny talks candidly about what worked well and what didn’t, during his almost 20-year agency journey.
