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  1. Discussions
  2.  → Name one quality you think is essential in a team mate.

Name one quality you think is essential in a team mate.

Abadesi
47 replies
It's so hard to pick one! But I will go for empathy.

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Ryan Hoover
Founder of Product Hunt & Weekend Fund
Choosing just one is hard and it really depends on what role they fill. But a critical trait for anyone I work with: high ethical standards. Naval articulates why this is so important in this 3 minute podcast.
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Abadesi
Founder & CEO, Hustle Crew
@rrhoover Good one - certainly lots of tech companies have fallen victim to scandals for undervaluing this!
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Stefan Pretorius
@rrhoover @abadesi
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Lanre Akinyemi
Sales @ Product Hunt
Hmm tough one - empathy is my fave but if I had to choose another I'd have to say clear, honest communication.
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Abadesi
Founder & CEO, Hustle Crew
@lanre_akinyemi essential! Yet hard to do it would seem.
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Lanre Akinyemi
Sales @ Product Hunt
@abadesi So very hard, particularly because It's hard to not take professional feedback personally
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Stefan Pretorius
@lanre_akinyemi
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Stephen Co
Founder of Northern Circuits Inc.
Transparency
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Abadesi
Founder & CEO, Hustle Crew
@nyte agreed! very essential!
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Stefan Pretorius
@nyte
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Ahmed Men
Working on Lazy app
I would counterintuitively say : Lazy. As the good old Bill Gates says, “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it.”
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Abadesi
Founder & CEO, Hustle Crew
@demtzu haha that's interesting!
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Stefan Pretorius
@demtzu
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Stefan Pretorius
@demtzu @abadesi
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Stefan Pretorius
@demtzu
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Ahmed Men
Working on Lazy app
too lazy to write something Stefan @stefan_pretorius ? ;p
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Danielle Rodriguez
Honest communication when issues/blockers arise.
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Dan Edwards
Designer @ Snyk - Ex Product Hunt
I’d have to agree on Empathy, makes you a better team mate and a better designer 😊
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Dario
Shared sense of humour
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Andreas Möller
I own a computer.
Alive - they are alive.
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Gavan Gibson
CEO, founder of Sharetini
A big one for me is honoring your commitments!
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Dhruv Bhatia
Founder, Casa
results-driven
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Abadesi
Founder & CEO, Hustle Crew
@dhruv_bhatia super important!
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Alex Devero
Founder of Devero maker builder designer
Open-mindedness. Without this quality, one can't accept feedback, learn and improve.
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Shannon Maloney
Co-founder, Director @rippmarketing
Empathy is such a good one! Work ethic is a quality I value hugely in my teammates. Being surrounded by people working hard always encourages me to do more of my best work. Great question!
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Abadesi
Founder & CEO, Hustle Crew
@shannon_maloney ah yes I agree - good work ethic means so much! You really feel like a team when its there, rallying together.
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Matt Boudreaux
Encouraging - I think the ability to give a team mate support and confidence is extremely important
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Jun Gong
building in web3, prev: Dapp.com
@matt_boudreaux couldn't agree more.
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Paroma Indilo
Co-founder of datacy
Attitude, 100%. I have much more time for someone who junior but is open, honset, willing to learn and hardworking than someone who is a great coder but has terrible attitude.
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Keith Barney
A desire to learn new things
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Mitesh Shethwala
Co-founder & CEO - Hashtechy.com
Open-mindedness for feedback with high ethical standard is one quality I have always looked for in my team-mate!
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ElFitz
Rocking the 🌍, one step at a time
Dependability, or reliability, however you call it
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Johan Bavaud
Founder | Rise-of-indies.com
Integrity. Based on this quote of Warren Buffet: "Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you."
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Karthikeyan Partheeban
UX Designer - Zoho Finance Plus
Valuing Morals standards and capable of feeling empathy comes first.
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Earnest Tao
Headline here
I think it's common goal, because people can't come together when they have different motives
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