Companies are like human bodies

Companies are like human bodies.

If every organ is working perfectly, except one, the patient will still die if left untreated.

You cannot have a strong product team and a weak marketing team. You cannot have a strong ops team but a weak sales team.

Just like an elite athlete, every organ needs to be operating at peak performance for the body to be able to deliver extraordinary outcomes.

This applies at every level of granularity in your company - from individual people, to functions, to entire squads or departments.

The easiest thing to do is to ignore mediocrity. It’s a form of beta region paradox where the dull pain you’re experiencing is not sufficient to motivate a change - so you end up just tolerating things for too long.

Stop tolerating dull pain.

The truth is the dull pain is -1, whereas your high-performing team should be operating at +10.