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Organizing and motivating teams of people over a long period of time is one of the few things that separates good founders from great founders.
At YC we emphasize product and customers a lot.
But in practice managing the motivation of yourself, your cofounders, and your employees is probably more important.
Motivation is the true multiplier on talent and hard work. Even the most talented team will crawl without proper motivation.
It surprises me how many leaders don’t want to engage in the practice of motivating their employees.
I wonder if they believe that motivation should just come from the employees themselves.
That might work for a short while... but not long term. Long term, organizations need leaders who can lead by example and who work hard everyday to motivate those around them.
I think I’ve subconsciously known this since my first days as a startup CEO. But not until a conversation with @justinkan yesterday did this idea really sink in.
I actually wonder how much a startup’s disruption of a big companies is simply powdered by the startup employees being more motivated.
Many people talk about 10x or 100x engineers.
Not enough talk about how motivational leaders can 10x the output of their entire organization.
