"I'll tell you what matters. It matters to me that people did something great,"
"I'd be more interested about: 'What did you do after you got that degree? How did you apply it and how are you growing your stuff?'"
"It's a lot of work to build a growing software company, and so people have to have that intensity to say, 'I'm going to put in the work.' Once you have the skills and values, in the end, it really comes to, 'Are you working smart and are you working hard?'"
Dan Springer graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA in 1991 and worked at McKinsey for over six years. He served as DocuSign CEO from 2017 to 2022, left the board in April, and became CEO of Ironclad. Springer does not consider prestigious degrees when evaluating promotions and prefers evidence of what people accomplished after schooling. Promotion decisions prioritize three variables: an employee's skills, their ego management, and their intensity of effort. The evaluation framework treats skills divided by ego and amplified by how hard and smart a person works.
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