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Realism about your own skills, if coupled with realism about others' skills, might encourage you to build a stronger team earlier. The point of the article is t
by skmurphy 18y ago
Realism about your own skills, if coupled with realism about others' skills, might encourage you to build a stronger team earlier. The point of the article is that "you should listen to those you disagree with instead of writing them off as idiots." Overestimating your own abilities makes it less likely you will listen.
- ChaitanyaSai 18y agoTrue, but you could also talk about aggregate skill estimation of a team as a whole, and what they should do when another team (or the stock market) disagrees with them. Realism would be nice to arrive at, but say I hope to build a better mousetrap. How do I realistically estimate my chances in this endeavor?
- skmurphy 18y agoAnother team is different from the stock market. In an economic competition you have a number of opportunities to gather data from customers, prospects, non-customers, and competitors customers. The key step is to assume that you have something to learn from your competition. In the case of the better mousetrap you would be looking for folks with a mouse problem who are unsatisfied by current solutions, these are "non-customers."