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What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)

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Let's say you're a founder and you're trying to decide should I invest more on processes or should I invest more in people? The first thing is introspection. What do you believe in? Really. What do you believe in and what do the people around you believe in?

And how can you be a coherent leader? And you know what you can't You can nudge yourself a little bit away from your happy place, but you're not gonna go super far. You're not gonna go from like a process driven, meritocratic X Y Z person all the way to like uh

I'm gonna start a collectivist company where everything is sort of the consensus decision to do that. You're not gonna do that. But like I think it starts with self awareness and then that's like That's how people form their authentic Leadership. vibe and then they flex a little bit.

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