Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)

v: How to Survive (and Thrive)

For leaders:

• Hire curious generalists , not specialists.


• Track speed of feature development: ensure that it’s going up.


• Reward doers over sayers : look for the proof in the problem solved, not in the discussion had

Start with an ambitious, high-potential idea, but challenging and full of ambiguities — the rough shape of a nascent great idea. It typically isn’t new, but solves many problems in a simpler, more intuitive way. It ignites people’s curiosity and self-motivation. At the end, it should seem “obvious” so that others want to copy, because there aren’t ... See more