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February 3, 2007
Growing to Outgrow
Filed under: Leadership
We said goodbye to a member of our Foursquare Communications team yesterday. Jo Ann Antoine was our art director and had a great five-year run. She was instrumental to so many big things, including the complete re-deign of our flagship publication, Advance magazine. Although Jo Ann will be missed, this is one of those moments I dread and look forward to at the same time.
As a leader, I think part of my job is to make sure the problems my team is solving are staying big and scary enough to have to work together on. This means I influence both the way we approach our problems and the way I create problems.
I also think that if I am not growing each person individually to outgrow their role, I'm being selfish.
Setting temporary sadness aside, seeing a good team member go is a thrill. It means they went as far as they could (at least on my team), and are prepared to tackle what may be next.
It also means the role is wide open for the next person to come along and take us places as a team that we've never been.
Know anybody looking for a job as an art director? Send them my way.
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