Editor vs. Author: 5 Strategic Leadership Skills Your Startup Needs For The Long Game
A few years back I had the privilege of hanging out with Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and Square, while we were on a speaking tour in Canada.
This guy is a machine. He’s running 2 x Billion dollar businesses with a combined employee count of over 5000… at the same time.
So I figured a guy with a net worth of $5.7 Billion (yes… might know a thing or two about leadership for scaling businesses .
…I was right.
Jack shared with me heaps of insights about leadership but there was one that has stuck with me ever since:
The idea of the Author vs the Editor.
This idea alone has affected how I think about leadership and my relationship with my teams, but it’s 100% applicable to startup teams at a small scale too.
It would be greedy if I kept it to myself, so I want to share it with you in this week’s video:
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Your ability to lead your team has a impact on your company’s success, whether you like it or not. But great leadership is a muscle that can be trained… starting with this video.
These are the 5 key points I cover this week:
- Define The Outcome
- Let Them Author
- Sort
- 1–3–1 Rule
- Coach To Success
The good news is that improving your leadership skills isn’t a burden. In fact: it will make your job easier!
You’ll get more out of the resources you already have, you’ll leverage hidden talents in your team, and you’ll find innovation that gives you a competitive edge.
It’s a common mistake I see when founders and small-time CEOs think of leadership only when the team is big. By that point, company culture is already infused.
I absolutely recommend you take some time today to really think about how you lead your team and watch this week’s video . It’s worth taking Jack Dorsey’s insights seriously.
Let me know in the comments if you found Jack’s insights as valuable as I did.
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Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. (Get the free 3 videos to grow your business here.) He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited two tech startups: Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome.
Originally published at https://www.danmartell.com on September 2, 2019.
