BUILD with Blake Bartlett
Prashanth Chandrasekar (Stack Overflow): Non-Dual Leadership
Founders often have strong opinions and extreme perspectives. In the early days, this is good because it leads innovators to start companies. But as a team scales, leaders need to adopt an open mindset. Prashanth describes how this approach has led Stack Overflow to huge success by embracing counterintuitive strategies.
Key Takeaways:
[3:18] What does Prashanth mean exactly by non-dualistic leadership?
[5:02] Prashanth shares examples of non-dualistic leadership.
[7:40] Prashanth shares his thoughts about the statement “strong opinions loosely held.”
[10:22] Prashanth shares examples of some best practices and commonly accepted ideas that he had thought about differently.
[16:41] How does Prashanth think about the risk and mitigating the risk of a consensus-seeking approach?
[19:10] What are some sort of starting points for those trying to put this approach into practice?
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