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Autonomy and trust

Finding the right balance of accountability and autonomy.

December 10th, 2024

by Henry Poydar

in Teamwork

Balancing accountability and autonomy

The CTOs, CPOs, and VPEs I talk to often struggle with how to balance autonomy and trust, especially as they scale.

Some want to trust their team to get stuff done. But they risk missed deadlines or scope creep by being too hands off.

Others get in the weeds and micromanage. But over-indexing on control can alienate their team.

Continuous coordination via Steady allows them to reconcile that tension.

By pulling in data from across tech silos. Distilling actionable insights between APIs and human intensions. And pushing right-sized updates when are where they need them.

The result: updates without the low-value meetings. Visibility without the back-and-forth inquiries. Insights to make faster, better decisions.

There’s a real opportunity to balance autonomy and trust. Steady helps leaders across teams make that a reality.

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