Noah Labhart

And the okay contributor you define as a person who meets standards in all areas, but shows no exceptionalism.

And this really got me thinking, why is this person more damaging to a culture of mastery?

than the high talent disruptor.

Definitely a hard thing to do, but it makes sense having a handful of okay contributors creating a culture of okay contribution.

That rings totally true for me as a founder myself.

I think that moves into my next question really nicely over to the mission athlete.

What is a mission athlete?

And when recruiting, how does preparing a vision document

for a role shift the recruiting conversation from like a transactional and maybe aligned with an okay contributor, like transactional meaning the expectations kind of thing, to one focused on strategic alignment and ownership?

How does preparing that doc shift it?

And before that, what is a mission athlete?

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