Large organizations have a common problem that NVIDIA's CEO has a solution for: Top-5 Things emails.
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T5T emails began as a solution to a surprisingly tricky problem. Huang is allergic to the bureaucracy that infects organizations as they get bigger. But as his startup grew, he “needed to somehow keep tabs on what was going on inside Nvidia in order to make sure everyone had the right priorities,” Kim writes.
This turned out to be harder than etching billions of transistors on a silicon wafer.
The documents that make it to a typical CEO tend to get so watered down along the way that they’re liable to leave a puddle on his desk. Huang doesn’t bother with any of them. He doesn’t believe in formal strategic planning or status reports, either. “Status reports are meta-information by the time you get them,” Huang said last year. “They’re barely informative.”
He doesn’t want information that has already made its way through layers of management. What he wants is “information from the edge,”
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