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Learning ability: how fast you learn? How frequent? How focused? Are you measuring the progress? Is it like a super learner that can pick up and get deeper into the learning effectively? This is about growing your knowledge and skills to achieve your goals.
2. Execution power. How efficiently do you leverage your time to achieve the results? This measures your current capacity. Execution power = Productivity x Time committed, so one should increase these two sub-dimensions to increase the output.
3. Strategic Thinking. How do you decide which direction to go and when you pivot? How do you strategically position yourself in a highly competitive landscape? This is not only about yourself, but also about your peers and competitors. Knowing where and when to do what things are critically important for the success of any highly competitive field.
4. Leadership. How do you build a team and empower them to do great things? How do you create a win-win situation for everyone so that they can focus on the same direction as you and put all strengths together and follow your vision?
In Chinese, the four dimensions called 学习能力、执行力、战略思考力、领导力。We need to constantly reflect ourselves on these four dimensions and then figure out a plan to improve them.
The first two makes your a super IC and the later two make your a great leader. With these abilities, you can assemble a team for your mission and vision.
Many great startups, research project are all done by the efforts lead by such 10 person or super individual.
