371: Creating a Remote Culture with Irina Poddubnaia
Irina Poddubnaia is a SAAS founder and a business consultant who specializes in Operations and Process Optimization. Irina has over 8 years of experience in eCommerce with its different challenges and obstacles, from running a fulfillment center in China where she was living for over 2 years to launching her own software @TrackMage
@TrackMage allows eCommerce stores to have 5-10% extra sales by simplifying the customer experience. With TrackMage the customers can track their products on the platform and the system does the upsell and then automatic follow-ups for reviews.
In this episode:
- Irina shares about her background and how she got her start in eCommerce
- Discovered she was good in communicating with people both in person and online
- Looking up to Elon Musk as he continues to push the boundaries of technology
- Becoming servant leaders
- Transitioning to facilitative leadership
- Introducing new habits through repetition
Key Takeaways:
- We are dealing with more complexity and information around us
- Command and control doesn't really do anything
- Leaders should invest in educating themselves
- Learn to fail forward
Tweetable Quote:
\u201cThe future belongs to a facilitative leader or the servant leader. \u201d - Irina Poddubnaia
\u201cYou have to think remote first.\u201d - Irina Poddubnaia
Connect with Irina:
Website: https://trackmage.com/
Social Media:LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
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