Eric Siu explains why you need feedback from others, even if you work best alone. He shares how he consulted his team when structuring an acquisition, showing that asking people with more experience matters, regardless of whether you take their advice.
If you want to do stuff on your own, get feedback from others. Now, for example, we're about to buy a company. We were going back and forth on how to structure it. I didn't just go to the business owners and just say, hey, this is how we're going to end up doing the deal. I talked to my team because they have more experience than I do in this, and they gave us ideas on what would work and what didn't. And once we all agreed upon what's the best solution, I then went back to the people. So the point I'm getting at is even if you're that person who likes being an individual contributor and you don't like delegating or managing a lot of people, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't take input from other people who know more than you. There's always someone out there who's smarter, who knows more than a specific topic than you may know, and it's wise to get their opinion. Whether you take it or not, there's no harm in asking.
