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A fellow founder snapped a picture at dinner one night and slid it across the table. It was a shot from the restaurant restroom: a sink with exposed pipes, a hose, two makeshift braces holding things together, and a single metal bucket catching the leak.
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Competent leaders. Competent teams. Competent hires. We hear about competency all the time in business. But most of the time, when someone uses the term, they’re talking about something else: potential, credentials, personality. The word “competent” sounds legitimate, even objective. But in ...
If you want to build a great company (not just a “good enough” one, but a truly great one), you eventually run into this hard truth: Heroics don’t scale. It’s easy to celebrate the person who pulls the all-nighter, saves the client, or jumps in last-minute to close the deal. Those moments feel ...
