Peter Deng views teams as products that require various specialized skill sets for success. He emphasized the importance of assembling diverse specialists—akin to a superhero team—to foster innovation and problem-solving. In his experience, the most effective teams comprised members with distinct strengths who collectively produce superior outcomes. Deng advocates for recruiting individuals who demonstrate autonomy and a desire for continual improvement, allowing teams to better address unmet needs and achieve their goals.
As a leader, you have to set up your team the right way. You have to really think about your team as a product and what are the various pieces you need to really stretch the gamut of what you're thinking about.
The teams that I've helped build are - the most successful ones are a team of Avengers that are just very different, have very different superpowers.
It's almost like you're playing an RPG where everyone has different sliders and you have to create this super team where everyone actually spikes in different ways.
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