Teams that deliver more.
Build a team that ships. I love the simplicity and underlying efficiency of these few lines stolen from David Perell's Monday musings, although credits seem to be attributed to the founder of AngelList.
- Break big challenges into problems you can solve in a week or 2 max. If you can't deliver in such a short time, break them into smaller ones.
- Surround yourself with doers. We did that at La French Tech Singapore and surprisingly rarely in the Steering Committee you hear stuff like "we need to...", "we have to..." or "we should...". It's either "I'll do it", or we just don't do it.
- Very similarly, people work on stuff they're interested in. It's essential for long term sustainability, being a paid work or not. I created my very own company, Co-Creation Lab, on that very premise. To work on solving complex problems, because that's what I truly love doing. And I'm certainly happy to outsource my taxes and admin to Sleek, some of my time-consuming tasks to my assistant at Sigrid.AI, my project management to monday.com and so on...
- Talk about what you intend to do, before you even know how you're going to do it. Because then you create peer pressure... for yourself! No one wants to sound like a loser, so believe me, you'll find a way rather than finding excuses.
- Own it! There's a brazilian proverb that says "A dog with 2 owners will starve to death". A leader takes the matter in hands, leverage its network and all the help needed and delivers for the team that helped her.
Some of these concepts are core to the modern form of creative leadership, to enable teams to experiment, make progress and eventually innovate and we try and make them tangible at Co-Creation Lab or within the core group leading la French Tech in Singapore. Not surprisingly, they can also be applied to any type of organisation, big or small, as they come from a mindset rather than a structure.
Would love to hear your opinion about it.
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4 年I agree... Although this all becomes much more challenging from the moment your company grows beyond the point when the team have regular access to the leadership team. My take here is that this works well at the team level. What I would just add is the importance of managers and leaders in this. Without those you run the risk to lose focus and collaboration. Leaders are critical to bring the direction and cohesion, managers to provide context and knowledge.
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4 年Excellent reflections, Julien
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4 年Pretty spot on