Such an insightful article. The definition of politics being at the inflection point of when people switch from indexing on the interest of the organization to

Such an insightful article. The definition of politics being at the inflection point of when people switch from indexing on the interest of the organization to individual and team interest was very helpful. One thing I might add about scaling teams and growth in general is a bit more meta, which she talks about in a few ways, whereas I would estimate a sense of security is valued at upwards of 30% of your comp. Some people weight it differently, but when you re-examine wealth as the ability to reasonably plan into the future, it's not just a linear effect of marginal dollars. Working in a high growth environment means giving up the real wealth that is a sense of security. Your "legos," in the article, are the levers you have that you percieve as securing your ability to plan to still be working there in 6, 12, or 18 months. The growth mentality is that there is no stability and you just learn to manage and extract value from dynamic situations, but that mentality and talent are not always present. To work in startups, you need to source your sense of stability and your ability to plan from somewhere outside the office. This can be a constructive attitude, or it can be frugality, or just maintaining your openness to opportunity elsewhere, but what seems to cause that inflection point during growth isn't so much the speed of growth, but whether you can provide your teams with the ability to maintain that security to plan for themselves as individuals. It's similar to offering her colleague something with a multiple on importance to what she was working on to get her to delegate her current queue. That let her plan, and secured her perception of her future.