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Chris McGowan: The Recruitment Insider Who Built a Company With No Managers
Chris McGowan is the founder and CEO of ThunderLabs, an Australian firm working across digital experiences, customer identity, and specialist recruitment. Before building ThunderLabs, Chris spent years inside the recruitment industry—giving him a front-row view of how organisations actually coordinate work, reward competence, and quietly fail when hierarchy substitutes for judgement.
In this conversation, we examine what happens when you remove general managers and formal executive layers—and what must replace them if the organisation is to function. Chris explains how ThunderLabs operates…
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