Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week.

This is a candid conversation about leadership and how our egos, sense of identity, and personal practices shape our company cultures. In particular, I think you’ll find practical benefit from our discussion about decoupling the concepts of morality and integrity to have healthier team dynamics.

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Links & resources mentioned

• Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko, or via email

• Mike Saloio - Twitter, LinkedIn

• Huddle

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Related episodes:

• Barry Brown: Work as a pathway of transformation

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People & orgs:

• Steph Golik (cofounder)

• TechStars

• EXPA

• Rick Rubin

• Alfred Adler

• Ray Dalio

• Russell Simmons (+ meditation book)

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Books and media:

• The Courage To Be Disliked

• Article - Polarities

• Polarity Management (book)

• Success Through Stillness

• Rick Rubin book

• Huddle’s $3.4M seed by Wave Capital, IDEO and Outlander

• The Playbook

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Other resources:

• Ikigai

• “You must become somebody before you become nobody”

• Ubuntu

• Transcendental Meditation

• Four minute mile effect - Bannister effect