Travis Kalanick's leadership style emphasized creative problem-solving and explaining the reasoning behind decisions to amplify organizational capability.

He's a problem solver. Like he he he will define what what he is and what he looks for in others as creative problem solving. The ability for him to walk into any meeting on any topic, ask a few pointed questions, float a few ideas, and in 15 minutes sort of change the minds or change the thinking or evolve the thinking of the people in the room who have spent like weeks as experts on this topic is amazing. And to then go through every day, every week, half an hour, half an hour, half an hour into the evenings, and just like do that muscle over and over and over again is so value add. I think the second is and and I think back to the sort of all-hands that that he would host, where he would not only give an answer to a question, but he would explain his thinking on why that was the answer. I think that's exceptionally value valuable in leaders. To take people through why what you say is is, and helps them It creates many versions of yourself, right?

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