About this episode

Mateo Bervejillo discusses the challenges of transitioning into leadership and the importance of trust over authority.

Guest: Mateo Bervejillo, CEO of Xseed and author of Back to Basics Mateo started his career as an attorney in Uruguay before moving into outsourcing operations, growing into VP-level roles leading teams across the US, Uruguay and India, and eventually becoming CEO of Xseed, a LATAM software talent company he helped grow from five people to a hundred. He has spent two decades in the gap between being good at a job and being good at leading people who do that job. What we cover in this episode The conversation covers what actually happens when you get promoted into leadership for the first time, and why the skills that earned you the role are rarely the ones the role requires. We talk about inheriting teams versus building them, the mistake of leading by authority rather than trust, why scaling a business means changing how you work rather than just working more, and how to tell whether you are actually succeeding as a leader. Key topics and timestamps [00:02] Why a legal background can become a "business prevention syndrome" and how to get past it [08:00] The transition from corporate to entrepreneurship, and losing the fear of rejection [11:00] Building a network before you need…

People in this episode

Guest: Mateo Bervejillo

Topics covered

• leadership transition
• building teams
• leading by trust
• scaling businesses
• networking
• corporate to entrepreneurship

Keywords

• leadership
• authority
• trust
• networking
• entrepreneurship
• team building
• scaling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Xseed

Books & works: Back to Basics

Places: Uruguay, US, India

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