Lenny DistilledLeadership → Team Building
When I meet with people, when I mentor them, I try with it within the first session or two, whenever I can get a hypothesis, I say, 'I think your superpower is...' And I describe to them what I think I can see them being truly exceptional at.
I try to see the greatness, the seeds of greatness in everything. Everyone and everything around me, I look for, I try to find and see, man, what is the most compelling part of this? And let me lean into that.
You want individuals to be spiky and you want team to be well-rounded.
If we all agree that the feeling of something should be, I'm sitting in Dolores Park with my friends on a sunny Saturday, then people will just naturally build something that feels more consistent.
There are I think a lot of people who when you put them on the thing that they are super interested and fired up about will outperform your wildest imagination of what's possible. Put in the wrong effort where they're not motivated, yeah, they will be fine.