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The pov I’ve been waiting for, and you totally delivered. Thanks for emphasizing self-awareness in particular—imho the key differentiator between extraordinary leaders/founders and everybody else.

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Sep 10Liked by Molly Graham

This is great all the way from the title!

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my biggest takeway is this : The job of an exceptional operator is to teach the company to act like the founder at scale. You coudn't have said it any better!

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Very good points. Basically founder mode only works if founders are willing and committed to becoming great managers (or, rather, true leaders) - founder mode is conditional to coaching mode :)

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Great article - thanks for sharing this perspective.

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I really like your point of view. I also wrote something about Founder vs Management modes: https://www.productleadership.io/p/the-founders-mode-debacle

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Awesome article.

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