Bill Canady identifies three traits for strong teams: urgency, continuous learning, and execution. He emphasizes adapting to current circumstances over relying on past experience, and prioritizes people who reliably get things done.
There's 3 key pieces I look for. So the first is a sense of urgency, right? They want to be part of this. They're here. They are ready to get after it. The second one is this continuous learning, the sense that there's probably better ways to do things out there, or certainly different ways, and open to trying. The tough one is always you come and you say, well, have you thought about this? And they'll say, well, you know, 20 years ago we did this and it didn't work, so we don't want to try it again. That may be true, but it's a different time we're in and the company's in different circumstances, and we're really looking for people who are willing to put the chips on the table table and let's try it. And then the third piece is this ability to go get stuff done, right? It is absolutely critical to have people on your team who will go get things done.
