Codie Sanchez

If you want to motivate me, just start with a compliment.

Tell me what you like about it and then I'll be more than happy to fix what's wrong about it.

But if you don't see anything of value here, then we're sort of wasting, I'm wasting my time.

I've produced some crap, right?

So reassure me that there's something here and then we'll go forward with our, so like people, I think one of the definitions of a good manager or boss is someone who understands how to deliver feedback

On a person-by-person basis, like differentiates.

Different people need different things, right?

I have a guy I work with named Ben who's incredibly talented.

And Ben has a fundamental flaw, which he has incredible ideas and then he loses faith in them.

It's not a huge, it's not an incredible flaw.

It's just a flaw.

And he doesn't realize how good his idea is.

And so then what he does is he overly complicates or he tries to compensate or he goes off on a tangent.

And my job is to say, Ben, Ben.

This is genius, and I'm not making this up.

He always is genius, but he's like, Ben, you don't need to do this other stuff.

You've hit your home run.

You don't have to go back up to the plate, right?

That's what he needs because he is a self-doubting genius, right?

The self-doubting genius needs a very different kind of feedback from...