How should you build your team at the beginning?
Bring together people with different areas of expertise.
But of the same ‘kind’—sharing the same core values.
Argue less.
And if we do argue, let it be a sound argument rather than a quarrel.
Go fishing together, and when the boat returns to shore, share the catch.
As you grow and need stronger personnel, how should you interview and assess senior managers?
We need to see whether this person can still change/adapt.
They are used to working with established processes and simply customizing them to fit.
Little capacity to build from 0.
Experience that brought success 3-5 years ago is no longer of much help.
It takes fire and passion to move toward the future.
The more talented a person is,
The arena in which to apply your talents must be correspondingly wider.
For a martial arts beginner, a circle 3m in diameter is enough room to practice.
For Bruce Lee, would even a hundred-meter room be enough to practice martial arts?
The working person's mindset is to prove themselves.
Who is a talented person?
That is very hard to answer.
Who is the best chief financial officer in Vietnam?
Certainly not those economics teachers.
A talented person at one company becomes ordinary at another.
It is all relative
Just do not hire the wrong people.
Recruit people who share your outlook.
If we accept relativity.
There may be no single most talented person.
But there are people good enough to build the business alongside me.
Which leadership factor matters during the startup stage?
Initially: Decisive
Afterward: Democracy
Because the team has become capable. The business has grown, and I have become detached from reality.
The team members closest to customers speak; I listen more.
What is the message?
Does the team need to understand who they are and what they do?
Where are we going?
What are we fighting for?
And if there is peace, what do we do?
Show the future
On that joyous day of great victory, I was the one serving your drinking table -> Loss.
You must be the person sitting at the VIP table with me. Only then will it work.
Talent + Virtue -> Reaching the finish at very high speed.
Less Talent, more Virtue -> Even if it takes longer, you will reach the finish line.
Less Virtue, with Talent -> You cannot reach the finish line; the results are only temporary.
Virtue is not a matter of Having or Not Having
It is High/Low
Does anyone on my friends list consider themselves absolutely highly ethical?
For example: using company facilities for personal matters (the printer to print private documents) is already dishonest.
Give others the chance to change & improve.
Young people who are successful today.
Because they were fortunate to have good Teachers who guided them wholeheartedly.
Keep walking the path you have created and creating who you are.
