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I don't think that helps me... :) It's not about ego for me, at least I like to think it's not. I have a persistent worry that other people will screw up my gr

• nostrademons 14y ago
  Sounds like ego to me. ;-) Well, for that, it's probably worth remembering a finding from psychology: everybody likes their own ideas better than someone else's, simply because they're their own. And it takes a particular kind of skill to recognize the good in other people's ideas, and it's really that skill that's what makes you good at working in teams. Some of my managers have been really good at that, and they've been responsible for some great things as a result. It also helps to rigorously test your ideas against the outside world - for me, it was the experience of doing (and failing at) the startup, over and over again, that taught me that maybe my ideas weren't so hot. In practice, there're usually lots of good ways to do something; it's often easier just to go with whatever someone else proposes simply so you can make forward progress.