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Recognize young people with extraordinary ability

Extreme Focus - everyone should only have #1 initiative

Dedication to individual accomplishment - each innovation were driven by a single person

Refusal to accept constraints, external or internal - if you can’t solve a problem, someone else will solve this for you.

Driven problem solvers: smart, driven problem solvers, you just need to be able to solve any problem that appeared

Self-sufficiency: figure it out how to achieve your goals

Extreme bias towards action: you should ship to production

Willingness to try: try new directions often

Data-driven decision making: do your homework, bring your data to support your decisions.

Radical transparency on metrics: share your metrics and let the team extract info

Vigorous debate, often via email: every critical issue needs a champion and critics

Extreme Pressure: be able to work on extreme pressure

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