That perfectionism also meant that simple decisions often took a very long time to make, and he would sometimes become a bottle-neck in his own company. He also didn’t quite realize that just because he had a strong work ethic — the same drive that led him to create two companies before starting Airbnb — it didn’t mean everyone else did. The 360-degree review revealed to him that people on his team hadn’t had dinner with their significant others in weeks and weren’t doing things like going to the gym, and in truth some of them were thinking about leaving. “My drive for perfection was burning
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