Another interesting piece, Ben. I would however disagree on this item: "Successful CEOs need their teams to tolerate more pain than their competition." To me this represents an often unsuccessful approach to leadership in team efforts. If one needs creativity, collaboration, and productivity, generating pain can be counter-productive.
As one example, one of the acknowledged top CEOs of all time was Henry Ford. Per Google's AI: "On September 25, 1926, Henry Ford revolutionized labor by adopting a five-day, 40-hour workweek for his factory employees without reducing pay. This shift from a six-day week intended to boost productivity, improve worker well-being, and allow employees to use their cars on weekends." That change was not about pain.
I had my own successes as a team leader and what team members said later was that I made the process enjoyable. I much prefer to live with that as a memory.
Pain in this context doesn’t mean employees are necessarily suffering.
Spending a lot of time with high focus, intensity and full dedication isn’t suffering when it’s something you enjoy or you want to do.
For me I enjoy exercising, so it isn’t suffering, it’s a pleasure but nonetheless I am putting strain on my body.
A good leader gets the best work out of their employees, it might not translate to longest hours worked, but pushing them to the utmost of their abilities. Great leaders can make it so employees never feel like they are suffering, and it sounds like you are one of those leaders.
Ya it’s basically the core philosophy of what u discussed in this piece. If u believe it’s possible and if u keep trying to do it you will succeed type shit. Obv goes much more in depth in that but that’s the gist. If you get it try to find one of the original copies before they modernized/edited it
You were able to do a chin up with a 100 lbs dumbbell? I had no idea Ben Saltiel was jacked like that. I’m impressed
Competition for Substack subscribers is getting fierce, need to do what you can
Great article. Typo alert: Andre Agassi not Adrian.
*Face palm Thank you for catching that, just corrected it.
At least you know this wasn’t LLM generated.
Another interesting piece, Ben. I would however disagree on this item: "Successful CEOs need their teams to tolerate more pain than their competition." To me this represents an often unsuccessful approach to leadership in team efforts. If one needs creativity, collaboration, and productivity, generating pain can be counter-productive.
As one example, one of the acknowledged top CEOs of all time was Henry Ford. Per Google's AI: "On September 25, 1926, Henry Ford revolutionized labor by adopting a five-day, 40-hour workweek for his factory employees without reducing pay. This shift from a six-day week intended to boost productivity, improve worker well-being, and allow employees to use their cars on weekends." That change was not about pain.
I had my own successes as a team leader and what team members said later was that I made the process enjoyable. I much prefer to live with that as a memory.
Hi Paul, astute comment.
We have a different definition of pain.
Pain in this context doesn’t mean employees are necessarily suffering.
Spending a lot of time with high focus, intensity and full dedication isn’t suffering when it’s something you enjoy or you want to do.
For me I enjoy exercising, so it isn’t suffering, it’s a pleasure but nonetheless I am putting strain on my body.
A good leader gets the best work out of their employees, it might not translate to longest hours worked, but pushing them to the utmost of their abilities. Great leaders can make it so employees never feel like they are suffering, and it sounds like you are one of those leaders.
Have you read psycho cybernetics twin
No, I was not aware of it. Is it worth checking out?
Ya it’s basically the core philosophy of what u discussed in this piece. If u believe it’s possible and if u keep trying to do it you will succeed type shit. Obv goes much more in depth in that but that’s the gist. If you get it try to find one of the original copies before they modernized/edited it
Belief definitely needs to lead success, don't think anyone accomplished anything great if they told themselves, I can't do it.
Ok, great I've kept note and added it to my list of books to read, I currently have 40 waiting on my shelf but I can't stop buying more.