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>2. Insistence on needing a “team” to implement the idea yet in the paragraph author states, > As it turns out, they’ve spent their career at a big company an

>2. Insistence on needing a “team” to implement the idea yet in the paragraph author states, > As it turns out, they’ve spent their career at a big company and didn’t fully realize that much of their success was actually a team effort. Insisting that an idea needs a team means that the person DOES realize that their success was a team effort. Glaring inconsistency, I stopped reading here.

jl2718 5y ago
I have noticed that the only productive unit of execution from idea to functional proof of the idea, is exactly one person. It helps tremendously if they have others to talk to about their idea, ‘idea people’, if you will. But it doesn’t work to have a separation between authority over ideas and responsibility for execution. I assume that is what prototypical ‘idea person’ is looking for in a team.
- dagw 5y ago
  Having worked with 'idea people' at various companies of various sizes, I've found that what the best 'ideas people' bring to the table is the ability to sell that idea up the food chain to get resources and time for the 'execution people' to actually be able to execute.
TchoBeer 5y ago
It's possible that they recognize that a team is necessary for execution (and if they don't realize this nothing gets done) but still think of the product as stemming wholly from them.
fotta 5y ago
Yeah this part really rubbed me the wrong way. Don't buy into an ideas person without committing to providing the proper support. Otherwise that person will get burnt out.
cjwinans79 5y ago
I was pulling from experience. In that instance, you are correct, they did realize it was a team effort. But what I failed to share will hopefully clear up the confusion. They didn't call that out during the hiring process. They talked themselves up as if they could succeed single-handedly. It wasn't shared until they were failing to show progress and then it became an excuse. It wasn't possible to give (or hire) them a team. In the end, the person was let go to find a bigger company with the resources and capacity they would need to succeed. No hard feelings... just not a fit. Does that clear everything up?

jl2718 5y ago

I have noticed that the only productive unit of execution from idea to functional proof of the idea, is exactly one person. It helps tremendously if they have others to talk to about their idea, ‘idea people’, if you will. But it doesn’t work to have a separation between authority over ideas and responsibility for execution. I assume that is what prototypical ‘idea person’ is looking for in a team.

dagw 5y ago
Having worked with 'idea people' at various companies of various sizes, I've found that what the best 'ideas people' bring to the table is the ability to sell that idea up the food chain to get resources and time for the 'execution people' to actually be able to execute.

TchoBeer 5y ago

It's possible that they recognize that a team is necessary for execution (and if they don't realize this nothing gets done) but still think of the product as stemming wholly from them.

fotta 5y ago

Yeah this part really rubbed me the wrong way. Don't buy into an ideas person without committing to providing the proper support. Otherwise that person will get burnt out.

cjwinans79 5y ago

I was pulling from experience. In that instance, you are correct, they did realize it was a team effort. But what I failed to share will hopefully clear up the confusion. They didn't call that out during the hiring process. They talked themselves up as if they could succeed single-handedly. It wasn't shared until they were failing to show progress and then it became an excuse. It wasn't possible to give (or hire) them a team. In the end, the person was let go to find a bigger company with the resources and capacity they would need to succeed. No hard feelings... just not a fit. Does that clear everything up?