Mastering Communication, Culture, and Team Effectiveness with Google’s Martin Gonzalez, Author of “The Bonfire Moment”

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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How can effective communication transform your team’s performance and culture? In this episode of Hello Monday, Martin Gonzalez, Principal of Org and Leadership at Google and co-author of The Bonfire Moment, shares actionable strategies for tackling the hardest people problems that startups face. His wisdom reaches far beyond startups, and can help improve conflict resolution, culture, and performance on any team. He sits down with Jessi to discuss how to foster open communication, how to argue better, and how to cultivate a culture of growth and innovation within teams. He highlights the importance of differentiating people skills from tech skills and why cultural innovation in the workplace takes time and patience. Gonzalez also emphasizes that a happy or comfortable team isn’t always an effective one—your goal as a leader should be to cultivate a culture where team members can challenge each other, grow, and add real value. Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter to get episodes and insights delivered straight to your inbox every Monday!

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:05.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, this is Hello Monday.
0:10.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:14.0	And if you haven't signed up for our newsletter yet, you can get this episode
0:21.0	delivered straight to your inbox every Monday morning.
0:24.0	Find the link in the show notes or on my profile on LinkedIn.
0:28.0	I came up as a tech reporter in the early aught. Over the years I wrote story
0:37.7	after story about startups, what they were doing right and what they were getting wrong.
0:44.0	It's always been the case that startups can get so wrapped up in hitting goals and meeting deliverables
0:50.0	that they forget about that other part of the work, the intangible part, the part
0:55.2	that so often makes or breaks a business, the people part.
0:59.9	And here's the thing, people issues are not reserved for startups alone.
1:04.0	They're everywhere.
1:05.4	According to today's guest, Martin Gonzalez,
1:08.0	they grow especially fast and wide
1:10.4	anywhere you see a startup-esque pressure cooker, which is to say,
1:15.0	anywhere you have big goals, tight constraints, and an intense, ambitious environment,
1:21.0	your big corporate setting, your local nonprofit, your private practice, and
1:26.4	they're the first things that go bump in the night if you're not paying attention.
1:31.6	Martin has co-written a book all about the most common traps that startups fall into and
1:37.0	how to step out of the pressure cooker if only for a day to see your own people issues
1:41.8	with clear eyes.
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