Eric Siu shares a leadership lesson from NVIDIA's Jensen Huang: best practices fuel mediocrity. Huang uses public feedback, weekly top-5 email updates, and whiteboards in every office to keep the company sharp instead of settling into standard management playbooks.
So the one thing I learned from The NVIDIA Way, which is a tremendous book, that best practices fuel mediocrity. And I think what Jensen learned overall is that forget criticize in private. He's just like, I'm just gonna do public feedback. Okay, that's number one. 2, he's like, I don't know what everyone's working on and I don't know what the latest trends are. Okay, we're gonna do top 5 emails. I want that from everyone, right? 3, we're gonna have a whiteboard in every single office, right? And I'm not saying I'm gonna copy all these things. I'm just saying he learned that best practices fuel mediocrity and he learned over time that he has to do things his way.
