Evan LaPointe

“It might help to put some language to it as floor risers and ceiling risers, because your company has a horizon of performance that you're heading into, and there's a bottom end of that range and a top end of that range. So as you get better at meetings, not o…”

“As a rule of thumb, if 25% of your year Is spent in gamma and alpha. You're probably a lot better off than the teams who spend less than 25% of their year thinking deep and being in this more daydreaming mode.”

“If you're an awesome engineer, but you damage people, it doesn't matter that you're an awesome engineer. Because in the social network, the mesh of your organization, you are a node that has like a protective covering around it. Information is not flowing to y…”

“If you have dysfunctionally high compassion, dysfunctionally high openness, you have internal rewards and motivations to explore regions of product that other minds aren't exploring as intuitively. And you don't have to have the whole deck, you know, to be ama…”

“The under appreciated piece of that methodology Is that you're still letting that person see the world, but you've given them new information that is breaking some calcification in their brain. It's not the challenge. It's not the moment of the challenge where…”

“Very few conscientious people spend, in my opinion, as a very open person, Enough time immersing themselves in the reality that is everyday situational awareness necessary to do their job.”

“Asking for accountability is the best way to not get it because acts asking for accountability activates people's safety systems, or especially saying I'm going to hold people accountable.”

“And that team, because they got stuck in the translation phase instead of the experimentation phase, has a huge disadvantage in the market.”

“If you are low in openness, your brain essentially has abstract, creative, intellectual, complex thinking wired to the pain systems of the brain.”

“It's way better to have a debate about the principles than it is to have a debate about the tactics that are rooted in the fact that you have super misaligned principles. So if somebody is trying to make the decision, you know, with speed in mind, and another …”

“If you look at this coaching thing at it's going on at Canva instead of managing, like you load that in the simulator and you're like, boy, this looks pretty nice. This is a higher performance thing. Like we've advocacy instead of, you know, regulation we have…”

“You can kind of almost look at this as an equation of science knows minus what your business does equals dysfunction, right? Like that's, that is a, Pretty crystal clear thing.”