Saved by Mo Shafieeha
Conflict Avoidance is Dishonesty
Especially in business, if something isn't going well, I try to acknowledge it publicly and I try to acknowledge it publicly in front of my co-founders and friends and co-workers. Then, I'm not hiding it from anybody else. If I'm not hiding it from anybody, I'm not going to delude myself from what's actually going on.
Eric Jorgenson • Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Comradery is dangerous. It makes it hard for people to challenge each other’s work. There is a tendency to not want to throw a colleague under the bus. That needs to be avoided.
Walter Isaacson • Elon Musk
Livingston: What has the potential to go most wrong in the first year when a startup is such a fragile organization? Perlman: The worst thing that can happen to a startup is if the founding team—or the people who are leading the thing—do not get along. And it's deadly when they don't get along in front of the troops. I've come to realize over the y
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