Surround Yourself with Winners: The Key to Success

Name: Surround Yourself with Winners: The Key to Success
Uploaded: 2025-04-10T10:04:31+00:00
Duration: 1 min 21 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: A leader's success depends on hiring and developing A-players, not tolerating underperformance. The speaker compares this to a coaching tree: if your…

10 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A leader's success depends on hiring and developing A-players, not tolerating underperformance. The speaker compares this to a coaching tree: if your mentors and protégés become head coaches, Super Bowl winners, and MVPs, that reflects your ability to build top talent. When hiring CROs and go-to-market leaders, look at the caliber of people they've attracted and developed.

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One is like, it's so simple, but you are the company you keep. Like, if you're surrounded by a— like, um, this can, depending on how you interpret this, but like, the best way to celebrate overperformance is not to tolerate underperformance. Like, A players want to be with A players. Like, everybody is on the Yankees, so to speak, uh, or the Phillies, depending on where you live. But so like, not the Royals, right? But like, so you are the company you keep, one. And two, like all of the success that I, I, that is attributed to my career or Wiz, like it's not me. It's the fact that I surround myself with these incredibly talented, selfless, hardworking people who just go and execute every single day, all day. And so I've always looked at a, you know, kind of like a coaching tree. Like if, if all of my coaches, so to speak, are becoming head coaches, or winning Super Bowls or winning MVPs, then I must be okay at my job. And fortunately for me, I've had the privilege of working with so many wonderful, talented people that if you, if you're looking to bring in a CRO or a sales leader or go-to-market leader and they don't have the, like, the best reflection of them is in the people they bring. And if they don't have that, then they're probably not the leader you're looking for. Couldn't agree more.