John Wetmore reflects on leading diverse teams by recognizing that not everyone wants to be CEO. He talks about adapting your approach to different ambition levels and learning not to push people so hard you scare them away.
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Like not everybody wants to be a CEO. Some people just wanna like manage a little shift, manage a couple people. And I used to get frustrated with that, but they didn't wanna like build this massive agency, right? I'm like, what is happening here? And, you know, I had to learn how to work with different levels of people. I had to learn how to maybe not push somebody too far too soon. Be like, dude, you gotta build a $100 million company this year. You know, maybe you want to, maybe you don't, but I scared a lot of people away over the years because I was too much. You know, so I had to learn to adapt me.