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Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by nullsense »

superzadeh wrote: post #19
serjester wrote: post #18

I wish you had something about your background. Leadership is one of the most difficult skills to learn and there's load of BS out there. I learned this the hard way when I was growing my first company. Personally I don't trust anyone to give me "management" advice, unless they've personally successfully been through the grind.

Definitely, we actually come from a super nerdy psych background: it took us 3 years and 5 failed products to learn how to make the “science” approachable. We have a partnership with Stanford who developed the psychological model we’re basing everything on (from Charles O’Reilly, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/charle... ). As for the rest, we have as many psychologists in house as we have softw…

Is there an app that tells you whether or not you have the emotional constitution for management, so you can avoid wasting years of your life reading management books and thinking your smart enough to do it only to find out when push comes to shove you just can't really tolerate the emotional rollercoaster well enough to actually do it?

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

insomniacity wrote: post #40

I was excited to use this, but sign-in is limited to Apple and Google? Unless you can provide a straight username/password option I'll have to pass. I guess you don't want to handle them, which makes sense, but there are plenty of other services that can handle it for you.

Thanks a lot for the feeback! There’s a couple other people who mentionned it today, so we’ll get to adding username/password (and definitely won’t handle the credentials ourselves ^^)

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by superzadeh »

nullsense wrote: post #41
superzadeh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely, we actually come from a super nerdy psych background: it took us 3 years and 5 failed products to learn how to make the “science” approachable. We have a partnership with Stanford who developed the psychological model we’re basing everything on (from Charles O’Reilly, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/charle... ). As for the rest, we have as many psychologists in house as we have softw…

Is there an app that tells you whether or not you have the emotional constitution for management, so you can avoid wasting years of your life reading management books and thinking your smart enough to do it only to find out when push comes to shove you just can't really tolerate the emotional rollercoaster well enough to actually do it?

Sound like a really awful experience, if it happened to you, I’m really sorry! I’m not sure if there’s a definitive answer (in psychology) whether someone has the emotional constitution for management that is set in time; it might be a matter of timing for many people.

In any case, one of the things we try to achieve with our app is to help people in this situation: we have tips for resilience, self discovery and emotional intelligence that can help better handle this emotional rollercoaster.

It turns out that many people get pushed into leading a team a specific way (by their peers, mentors or lack thereof), instead of having the tools to find their own leadership style and learn how to grow it. That was one of the main motivations when we started working on the psychology of our app: we need to start by discovering people’s leadership style, and only then recommend content & tips that will help them on the journey

Re: Show HN: Train your leadership skills in 2 min a day [iOS app]

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Post by mandeepj »

superzadeh wrote: post #36
mandeepj wrote: post #32

Just downloaded and completed the onboarding. Is it a side hustle for you or are you looking to establish a business around it?

Hey Mandeepj, not a side hustle ^^ we’re looking to estbalish a business around it. Our mission is to help anyone to become a great leader, so we want to keep the app free for individuals. We are also working on “team features”, and this is where we plan to make revenue for our business.

Sweet. Looking forward to that "team" launch. There's a lag in this space so you have a chance for a great shot. Good luck.
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