You can read it if you like but like any book based on survey research and regressions (this one is from Gallup) on textual abstractions, you get too-basic stuff you could have mostly guessed. Good checklist though. These 3 pages kinda cover the gist. amazon.com/Power-Make-Mos
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Lennon/McCartney was actually mentioned by a client pair of mine 🤣
Yeah, modeling on famous effective pairs is a good initually strategy. Pairwise virtue ethics. “What would Peter and Paul do?”
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Any material on Lennon/McCartney or Thompson/Ritchie to glean from?
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I mostly work with solo execs but in recent years working with pairs has become more common. It’s tricky but not in a couples counseling way. More like trying to act as an active stabilizing element by sparring with both, individually and together. It’s 4x as hard as a 1:1.
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An interesting part of the challenge is respecting the 1:1 confidences but also letting the 3 1:1 relationship data inform the three-way chats, and getting them to work better together while resisting being drawn into referee/couples-counselor mode.
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3 is too much I think. Though siblings (eg Warner brothers) sometimes seem to pull it off. You’re going to get an idiosyncratic pattern of divided responsibilities
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any hunch against troika, or pair and troika similar reasoning?
(troika w/o a forced 3-way responsibility split)
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I think the checklist from the Power of 2 book is kinda bad. It doesn’t matter if you get score A+ on those 8 “relationship house-keeping” things if the core creative tension is weak sauce.
Otoh if the core tension is electric, a lot of those 8 things can be C’s and D’s
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Yeah this one’s also on my list to read. If I ever write a book about this, just to be annoying I’ll call it “Original Famous Power of Two”
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I’ve basically never had a creative partner. Would be interesting 🤔
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Seriously though, if you find a good creative partner, grab on… especially in startup world. A true co-founder is like 10x increase in survival odds. I rarely take on super-early stage startup clients, and my most common reason for declining is “you don’t have a cofounder”
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The opposite can be said that an incompatible co-founder can decrease the chances of success by 10x, and compatibility is less likely to find.
Been searching for two years and it has only slowed down launching something I have clarity on.
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True. But from a founder’s perspective who gets fewer shots at figuring things out I need a better strategy.
Current theory is it’s about when than if—bringing on cofounder(s) only after the significant aspects of the vision is documented,… execution partner > creative partner
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