What are top traits of mediocre team members at a startup? POLL VIEWS

 

nobody is mediocre ..just on a different stage in evolution journey

PROCASTINATION

Lofty ambitions, poor execution

Only complaints no solutions!!

1. Professionalism

2. Comfort Zone

Meetings. Lots of meetings.

No confidence is product / service

Their decisions and actions tend to be restricted by internal judgment.

Work in progress status, everyday. Nothing gets released.

More interested in planning about what to do after work during work hours . Choosing Bitching , politics over work ethics .

So what if someone is a top performer and the company itself is mediocre or not treating the person properly. Isn’t he/she in this situation going to speak the same?

Saying 'the company sucks, I'm better than this, I want to quit' but saying this for more than a year.

Talking more about unnecessary things during breaks than ideas and technology. Pessimism. General negative attitude towards world and people around. Lack of energy, enthusiasm and drive. These are personal observations..Not generalising anyone..

When u have to "follow up" more than once for the same task..

- Negative energy - work status is always "blocked" due to some issue - not keen to learn (fixed mindset)

Micro management Confirmation biases Lack of clarity on leadership

Ignoring the advice of people beneth their level

Extending 30min meeting to 1hr by giving a long monologue.

lack of ownership.

Need a manager to track their work. Cannot self-audit.

Not having a sense of common purpose, more than money and status.

The work they do is only what has been asked for and nothing more.

Keep the team busy, unnecessarily!

They think they know what their doing but in the process they come to a realisation that they never did.

High on energy, high on visibility. Low on innovation, Low on outcomes.

1. Can’t handle ambiguity, need a spec for everything. 2. Enforces work hours more than they enforce getting things done. 3. Silos and departments 4. Avoiding blame even though nobody is blaming anyone.

They are mediocre because organisational goals and their personal goals are not in equilibrium,Fayol principles work in this case

Happy with how things are(Status Quo). Not asking for feedback, Not working on feedback, Not willing to go the extra mile to get things done.

Primary - not taking ownership. Which leads to lack of self drive to - continuous improvements - experimentation - evaluation - feedback - inaction and stagnation

"Why don't I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are?" he tells his prospective boss. "I work too hard, I care too much, and sometimes I can be too invested in my job."

Looks disconnected with the team, not owning assuming someone else will anyway finish it...(mere ko kya)

No ownership at all Blaming others all time Always ready with excuse Blocker in success of start up

I’d reframe this. Mediocre team members implies a non-leadership role. Early stage, EVERY person must bring own vision aligned w mission. Bare minimum: -Ship and learn -Not a 9to5 -Has own ideas -Can execute w team -Feeds off other’s ideas Mediocre ppl do opposite.

Blaming each other and not taking willing to take ownership

No control over their temper and not knowing the value of time.

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Having a bad judgement and conforming wayy too much

-Synchronous communication e.g. more meetings. -Not trained to measure the outcomes of the actions. - listening to gut feeling rather than customers. - low shipping credence -obsessed with features because obsessed with competition and turning the product into a feature creep.

Constantly shaming someone for respecting their own work life balance and also lacking empathy.

Discipline, ownership, proactiveness And also 1. They look for problems all around rather than solution. 2. They try copy from existing players and don’t think beyond

Persistence to not give up! Sometimes it's good but sometimes it's annoying when they justify their stand blindly!

Never take initiative. Always have to be told what to do, and how.

Playing politics, insecurity, trying to prove better than others - essentially, any trait that kills team work and sets a bad culture. Larger organizations have the cushion to cover for such behaviour. At startups, it becomes acute and difficult to make progress.

When you refuse to take suggestions and speak with an authoritative tone. It's a workplace and not your ego exhibition.

1. Need a map to follow 2. Bad at asking deeper questions 3. “This is not my responsibility” attitude 4. “Bhai, I don’t know how to do this. Can you help?” 5. Can’t self-manage, need oversight 6. Not missionaries or linchpins 7. No “big ear, small focus” behaviour 8. Don’t read

I suggest focus on ‘fit’. Misfits are easier to define+identify than mediocre. Each organisation needs multiple employee personas. Many traits mentioned here are of demotivated employees; that onus should lie with the management. Perhaps make the leaders also accountable.

1. Staying for experience 2. Don’t care about mission and vision 3. Don’t self audit 4. Don’t believe in culture 5. Don’t work on up skilling 6. Never ask questions to founders 7. Wait for founders validation 8 Never do networking with industry people.

1. They work abnormally fast when their managers/boss are around, to impress them. 2. They never ask better/quality/deep question. 3. They rarely try to go deep into the roots of the work alloted to them eg: why we do this work, value of doing this work, why we use .only this way to get this work done,is there any better alternative of getting this work done providing exact same outcome

4. Most of them hang around alot with other mediocre employees during company working hrs. Also they sit overtime just to do the samework they could have done by hanging around less during working hrs. Basically they overtime just to impress. 5. They very rarely try to think on their own & believe more in copying ideas from other brands. Which isn't necessarily good everytime. 6. They rarely talk to high performing employee 7. They try to take credits of other employee in front of their managers/boss. This is what i could gather up about mediocre's till date.

Don't know, never had a startup. It is probably the same as those of non-startup businesses - a lack of initiative and accountability.