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• Doing exactly what is told every single time. No surprises. No failures. No risks. No co-creation. No glory.
• A hiring principle I'd recommend to all startups btw, borrowed from Marilyn Monroe: "It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." Ask what makes them the most interesting person in any room.
• Think about something you deeply love, then teach it to me in 10 minutes". The boring do-what's-told sheeple usually have nothing to add. The others have given some astounding responses.
• Need a manager to track their work. Cannot self-audit.
• “It’s not my job”
• When u have to "follow up" more than once for the same task..
• Join the startup because they want to do interesting work and then actually only do what they find interesting
• Never take initiative. Always have to be told what to do, and how.
• They'll start showing results soon... Just need to hire a couple of people in their team asap.
• Not taking ownership.
• "Save your own ass" attitude. Which leads to blame game, instead of solving something together like a team