Mario Harik

It's okay that somebody's telling you, hey, I think in your area, you can do X, Y, or Z in a better way.

That's all good.

But this is the framework of people from a business perspective.

In your personal life, I think some of the things around kindness and humility and being collegial, all of that translates as well.

If you surround yourself with people who are actually, who bring the vibe of the party up, who are loving people, who are affectionate people, that's gonna add, that's gonna enrich your own life as you think about it.

What it means in practice, by the way, it's not necessarily consensus from the onset.

Because in business, as in life, whenever you are trying to solve for something big or something small, whenever you have something that as a team you want to address.

I usually worry if I'm in a team meeting and everybody's aligned on a solution.

And the reason why, because the first question I ask myself, did we look at that problem or that solution in 10 different ways to then have different perspectives of how to solve that problem?

Because if you want to create alpha, it's not about only settling for a local maximum.

It's about looking at a problem from different angles and being able to get different voices around how to solve that problem, analyzing each one of them, having data behind each one of these perspectives, and then being able to land the plane on what is the right outcome to get to the right place.

So getting along, however, is that we can disagree.

We can disagree on, you might think this solution is better than my solution or vice versa.

However, it's a very respectful disagreement.

It's a disagreement where when we leave that room, after debating, after looking at the numbers, after looking at the data, we all agree that this is the go forward path that would lead to the best solution to whatever problem or whatever thing that you're trying to solve for.

First, it's very tough to compare yourself to somebody who, I mean, he is one of a kind.

I mean, he's somebody who started eight multi-billion dollar companies.

I think it's more around every person is also different in how they were brought up and how they think about problem solving.

So I think it's more that a lot of the methods that I learned from him, you always have slightly different ways in how you apply them based on who you are as a person.

Well, we've always had a service focused culture.