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“You know, you’ve succeeded in navigating tension between two factions when both are a little bit excited and a little bit frustrated.”
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Most ambitious people are good salespeople, and when you’re a good salesperson, it’s a blessing and a curse, because what you can inadvertently do is sell people on an idea that they’re not actually that excited about.
They just fell for your sales pitch, and then you have people excited to join you on something, and then. But they’re really not right.
And so you’ve ended up with not the best team, whereas if you extend an invitation, people can always RSVP know.
It’s a very subtle thing, but there’s actually a material difference in how you approach something. And so it was, “hey, this is where we’re going.
We are going to be the best restaurant in New York,” and then we are going to be very ambitious in our goal setting.
So for the group that didn’t want to change, they’re like, ugh, this sounds hard.
And we are going to be very patient in our pursuit. We’re going to take this one step at a time.
We’re going to bring people along for the ride.
We’re not going to change everything all at once. We’re going to do this incrementally, yet consistently over time.
Which, to the other group that wanted everything right away, they’re like, did they end up being probably more frustrated? I think both sides.
Both sides equally.
Which, by the way, you know, you’ve succeeded in navigating tension between two factions when both are a little bit excited and a little bit frustrated. | Posted on 17/Nov/2023 23:48:53
