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Here's an important thing to think about, and to find a way to address in your team, on an individual and interpersonal level. Founders/leaders have a far greater chance of success if they have the ability to be completely honest with themselves, and teams have a far greater chance of success if they can be completely honest with each other. I can't find any links to specific excerpts now, but it's worth reading Ben Horowitz's "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" for insights about this alone; about the degree to which he and Marc Andreessen have an honest relationship with one another, and about how much value they place on self-honesty in the founders they back. The thing is, it's very rare and very slow and difficult to accomplish. Most of us have some ego fragility, and find it very hard to confront the truth about ourselves, and for that reason most of us generally avoid making fully honest comments to our friends, colleagues, partners, etc, until things get to breaking point, by which time it's often too late. But it can be accomplished with a lot of commitment and personal development work over a long enough period of time (different methods work for different people, but practices that focus on ego detachment are the right approach), and if/when you can do it, you should see power-law improvements in your outcomes. |