What makes a high performing startup team? It's not just communication — though that's important. It's something deeper.
It's a combination of traits that work together as a 'meta skill':
- Ability to anticipate needs and challenges
- Self Awareness
- Courage to take accountability
- Willingness to learn and improve
PI works like a 'meta skill' built upon the competency of multiple other soft skills — of which communication is one of them.
Communication is important, but it's not the most essential.
I've met plenty of great communicators whose actions don't meet up with their words and whose words don't meet up with their actions.
Finding those who can both adequately communicate and competently execute?
That, my friends, is the stuff of legends.