BoSUSA24 | Jim Benton | Building Iconic Teams – Achieving the Impossible Together

What makes an iconic team? Jim will explore what enables certain teams throughout history to achieve incredible feats and change the world. Great teams and great systems go hand-in-hand.

He will share stories of iconic teams that pursued bold visions with phenomenal execution and distill the common elements and principles that made these teams so successful. He will discuss the vital roles of purpose, trust, leadership, and team dynamics in high-performing teams to offer practical guidance on how to build “great teams” that consistently deliver remarkable results.

You’ll learn how you can harness the power of teamwork to turn ambitious goals into reality.

1. By Jim Benton Partner, Alignment.io Former CEO of Chorus.ai, Apollo.io, Co-Founder of ClearSlide Building Iconic Teams Making the Impossible Happen

2. Unlocking Iconic Mode Making the Impossible Happen

3. 2009 - ClearSlide

4. Co-Founders

5. SYSTEMS

6. SYSTEMS Iconic Mode

7. SILOS | Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb - Lenny’s Podcast

8. Execs work in Operational Silos, lack aligned plan for achieving the vision Leads to Poor Execution, lots of meetings Leads to Failing Leaders Leads to Low Morale, Turnover Leads to Competitive Losses Poor Business Results SILOS > So this happens

9. Chamath Palihapitiya - All In Podcast, Sept 2024

10. O: Clear the Head, Reboot

11. Achieve Anything You just need to know what you ultimately want, and why

12. Blink of an Eye Success → Team

13. A System to Achieve Anything Company > Team > People

14. The Journey to Iconic

15. The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen

16. ON A MISSION

17. The feeling sent email “Neurons that fire together, wire together." Neuroplasticity —when certain patterns of thought or behavior are repeated, they strengthen neural connections, "lighting up" the brain in a way that makes those patterns more ingrained. Reticular Activating System (RAS)

18. SYSTEMS Iconic Mode

19. SYSTEMS Iconic Mode system of alignment

20. a system of alignment A system to align every team to execute with a strong sense of purpose , with a bold vision , aligned on the right priorities , with clear goals, defined metrics , and with an inspiring high velocity rhythm . And all on one page. SYSTEMS

21. The System of Alignment RHYTHM AUTOMATION | Exec Meeting Weekly Operating Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, Top 6 Weekly All-Hands Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, decisions Monthly Alignment Operating Review 1:1 | Team level OKR review and discussion Quarterly Board Meeting | Align on mission, strategy, OKR, metrics, results, what’s next

22. Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR

23. Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR Mission VALUES

24. Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR Mission TEAM PLATFORM MARKET VALUES

25. Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR Mission VALUES METRICS TEAM PLATFORM MARKET 82%

26. Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR Mission TEAM PLATFORM MARKET #updates VALUES METRICS

27. Mission TEAM PLATFORM MARKET Exec Marketing Engineering Product Sales Design Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR VALUES METRICS

28. Mission CYCLE 2024 2023 2022 2021 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q3 Q4 Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR VALUES METRICS Q1

29. TEAM PLATFORM MARKET Mission PROJECTS Q4 2024 OKR Q4 2024 SWOT Analysis Q4 2024 Retrospective Q4 2024 Top 6 8.14.24 - 72% Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR VALUES METRICS

30. Sync with Slides Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR All Hands Board Team

31. Early Results STRATEGY EXECUTION VISION

32. March 16th, 2020

33. All systems go RHYTHM AUTOMATION | Exec Meeting Weekly Operating Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, Top 6 Weekly All-Hands Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, decisions Monthly Alignment Operating Review 1:1 | Team level OKR review and discussion Quarterly Board Meeting | Align on mission, strategy, OKR, metrics, results, what’s next

34. All I can say is WOW..... Incredible year with an incredible team. As I listened to our executive team reflect on the last year and talk through their plans and visions for the next, I couldn't help but smile and feel extremely honored to be part of such a collaborative, hard-working, and unbelievably talented team. 2020 was one of the most important years when it came to communication and interactions and Chorus was at the center of it.

35. An Alignment OKR for every leader Leads to Phenomenal Execution with a connected rhythm across teams Leads to Successful Leaders who have deep ownership Leads to High Morale attracting top talent Leads to Competitive Wins Leads to Extraordinary Business Results Iconic Mode

36. “The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.” - Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI

37. “Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99% alignment.” - Jim Collins, Author, Built to Last

38. The System of Alignment Unite your team to make the best decisions to achieve your vision. Step by step guidance →

39. Unlocking Iconic Mode RHYTHM AUTOMATION | Exec Meeting Weekly Operating Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, Top 6 Weekly All-Hands Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, decisions Monthly Alignment Operating Review 1:1 | Team level OKR review and discussion Quarterly Board Meeting | Align on mission, strategy, OKR, metrics, results, what’s next

40. Every team defines their mission → align the vision

41. 1-10, if not a 10, what would make it a 10.

42. PURPOSE VISION VALUES METRIC MISSION SpaceX Exec 2024 Mission To revolutionize space travel Make life multi-planetary To revolutionize space travel with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary.

43. PURPOSE VISION VALUES METRIC MISSION Microsoft Exec 2024 Mission Empowering others To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more

44. “Every part of the stack—the team, the division, and the company—should have a mission. A team’s mission should ladder up to the division’s mission, and the division’s mission should ladder up to the company’s mission.” Hughes Johnson, Claire. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building Every team performs a SWOT → align the strategy

45. Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Workspace Exec Q4 2024 SWOT Conclusion Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR BRINGING THE OKRs TO LIFE Team SWOT conclusions to become the O’s of their team Plans Each team member to add their top 3-4 Plan objectives to the team Plan Tune the items to not wrap Include clear guidance on initiative and measure of success for each item

46. Every team has an OKR → align the plan

47. Operating Rhythm Operating with a sense of purpose, clarity, connection, and deep alignment

48. Sync with Slides

49. Sync with Slides Workspace Exec Q4 2024 OKR All Hands AOR’s Team CHAT ON FIRE REALIZE AI POTENTIAL SPREAD THE STORY METRICS VALUES MISSION Board

50. Every team performs a Retro → align the learnings Team team member to add their top 3 from their RETRO Everyone gets 4 stars for each section to prioritize Discuss results and action items. Use to inform next SWOT and Plan

51. The Alignment Rhythm RHYTHM AUTOMATION | Exec Meeting Weekly Operating Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, Top 6 Weekly All-Hands Meeting | Shoutouts, OKR progress, topics, blockers, decisions Monthly Alignment Operating Review 1:1 | Team level OKR review and discussion Quarterly Board Meeting | Align on mission, strategy, OKR, metrics, results, what’s next

52. 2015

53. Iconic Team Dream

54. Iconic Community

55. Unlock Iconic.