This is a subscriber-only article. Join Entrepreneur+ today for access

Learn More

Already have an account?

Sign in

Entrepreneur Plus - Short White
For Subscribers

How 6 Business Titans Created a Thriving Team As the host of podcast Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman asks everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to Sara Blakely what it takes to build a successful company.

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

Noam Galai | Getty Images
Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg.

How do the most successful entrepreneurs build their companies? Here's what six titans told investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman when he interviewed them for his podcast, Masters of Scale.

1. Make time for decisions.

"The most important thing to do is to have quick decisions. We ultimately adopted a model of a staff meeting on Monday, a business meeting on Wednesday and a product meeting on Friday. Everybody knew which meeting the decisions were made at. And so as long as you could wait a week, you knew you'd get a hearing on your deal."
-- Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Alphabet

The rest of this article is locked.

Join Entrepreneur+ today for access.

Subscribe Now

Already have an account? Sign In