Scaling People

By Claire Hughes Johnson,

Book cover of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

Book description

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people.

A leader at both Google and Stripe from their early days, Claire Hughes Johnson has worked with founders and company builders to try to replicate their success. The…

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1 author picked Scaling People as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the book we find ourselves recommending most frequently.

For context, Hughes Johnson helped grow Stripe into the dominant, high-flying payments company it is today. The book captures everything she’s learned about company building and creating the conditions for people to thrive at scale.

It’s an essential resource for anyone working to make their organizations work better. Whatever problem you’re tackling, Hughes Johnson has probably solved it – and documented what she did and learned in this book. 

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