However, contrary to many misconceptions, 10x people often don’t do all things 10x better. Instead, they are often found doing 10% of things 100x be

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2021-06-21 16:00:03

However, contrary to many misconceptions, 10x people often don’t do all things 10x better. Instead, they are often found doing 10% of things 100x better than average (or more, even).

Big, early decisions have a major impact. For example - make the right decision, the software system scales two orders of magnitude with little maintenance; make the wrong decision, you end up playing whack-a-mole for a decade.

The point is this: especially in early, high-growth environments, decisions about how you move forward can have results that vary tremendously. You’re pouring the foundation that you are very quickly going to build a skyscraper on top of. It’s a place for 10x employees to earn the designation.

Another area where 10x people show their worth is in solving really hard, gross problems. For a sexy enough problem you’re going to get a bunch of smart people wanting to solve it. But every company has an abundance of grimy, unsavory, get-in-the-mud-and-thrash-your-way-forward problems that very few people have both the drive and the ability to solve. 10xers can shine in this environment.

Most short-term career optimizers would avoid or abandon these missions. For many, it’s a much higher expected value to leave a project or leave a company then sink effort into one of these efforts. However, for the people who can pull these off, the rewards can be majorly outsized.

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