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grin
@grin
How do you foster a culture of high standards on your team? Esp curious about small remote teams of equals (eg cofounder-like relationship, not employee/manager)
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Tbh, I’d lean nature over nurture here whenever possible — ie, on a small team, only hire people where high signal that they already are internally motivated That’s not bc I don’t wish there were solid cultural answers, but more that they seem really hard Bookmarking to learn more
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Ben 🟪
@benersing
I agree with @tldr
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links 🏴
@links
Most people would consider this an anti-signal but basically a to of feedback early and often. You must have high standards yourself and must not let them drop for anything - deadlines, management pressure, etc. You proliferate these standards by training new hires yourself. You become their first source of feedback to set the quality bar. Eventually you can train people how to train people (again, via overwhelming feedback). But at first, you must be the bar of quality.
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
i think it starts with a deep conversation around standards and what it looks like - i think if youre trying to implement it in one-off arrangements it fails also there can be challenges of people literally not having the capacity or understanding of what good looks like generally there is an embedded assumption in groups of what "good enough" looks like and if people know thats all they have to do, theyll aim at that cultivating the flywheel culturally for GREAT work all the time is quit hard if its not embedded in the culture. people need to go through the valley of challenges to see how it results in better work and then also have the cover and support when they make mistakes. ive seen most managers or leaders setting the standards dont quite understand HOW they arrive at good work and even worse at teaching or training others (this is basically what i do with my corporate think like a strategy consultant program)
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Speakup 🎩🔮
@speakup
how do you define high standards, output, values, et al... starts w co founders knowing how they define it and how open they can be to working w other builders or if they see them as a hierarchy... great question 100 $DEGEN for REGEN
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Marissa
@marissaposner
for early teams you need to hire high quality individuals. As the team grows, the culture of shipping fast and often grows to the other members of the team. I also think setting shared goals, putting your to-dos on a shared board, etc all helps keep accountability.
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Jacob
@jrf
shipping begets shipping?
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