In a small startup or any small team it’s very important for all members to challenge one another and keep people from getting comfortable. The tough thing is to find the delicate balance that forces people to push themselves just enough that they’re performing at their best without going to far to cause serious stress or a mindset of impossibility. The challenge should keep someone from getting comfortable, keeping things just out of reach so that one is always trying to reach just a little bit further.
So what are you doing to challenge the rest of your team? Are you actively trying to push your coworkers to perform just a little better? If you manage anyone, what are you doing to help them grow and keep them performing at their best?
Challenge is one of the great things that come out of working in a small team. Don’t cut your team mates short by skimping on this. Push them, and yourself, further.
Jon Fox was born and raised in central Illinois amongst a flat sea of corn and soy beans. Somehow he managed to give it all up and move to the scenic, mountainous land of Colorado where he is the co-founder, mastermind, and code monkey of IntenseDebate. He graduated from Illinois College in 2006 with a [...]
it is very difficult for a leader to gage when a person who works for you crossed the fine line between being unproductively relaxed into being creatively frozen from fear.
very succesful article thanks
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I agree that this is very tough and truly the sign of a great leader, but I still think that it is very important to work towards that goal if you are a leader. You just need to make sure that you're responsive if/when you go a little too far.