{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pressure Rising","title":"How Curiosity and Empathy Make Great Teams Stronger | Dr. Scott Nelson & Mark Benson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6000,"description":"Pressure Rising with Mark Benson and Scott Nelson\nMark Benson sits down with Scott Nelson, a technology executive and systems thinker whose career spans physics, engineering, product leadership, and organizational strategy. They explore how pressure changes teams, how leaders can tell when a system is breaking down, and why mission, values, and clarity matter most when the stakes are high.\nScott Nelson’s perspective is especially valuable because he has spent decades building mission critical products and leading teams through real constraints, where performance, accountability, and trust are not theoretical.\nhttps://resonantvector.com/pressure-rising\nKey topicsIn this episode, Mark Benson introduces Scott Nelson as an AI strategist, digital transformation leader, and longtime mentor who has led across Honeywell, Logic, SkyWater Technology Foundry, Digi International, and Tamarack AI.Scott explains that he was pulled across disciplines by a lifelong systems mindset, curiosity about how things work, and empathy for adjacent functions like product management, design, and engineering.He shares John Gall’s Law and uses it to argue that complex systems usually fail when they are designed too large or too abstract, and that working simple systems must come first.The conversation digs into how to spot a system under stress, including breakdowns in accountability, odd reporting granularity, behavior changes in meetings, and people trying to fix structural problems with spreadsheets.Scott describes team development through forming, storming, norming, and performing, and says pressure helps high performing teams when it arrives as growth pressure rather than chaos.He explains his hiring approach at Logic: network hiring, group decisions, and a strong emphasis on curiosity, enthusiasm, and mission alignment.Mark and Scott discuss the difference between productive focus and tunnel vision, especially when teams get overly narrow and stop protecting the larger system around...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vDKDNSg_rBjcdAJSw25PimCqpvV_wO39tGY810AwxWI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iM2Ux/NjExMjM2MmVhNGFk/YTk5ZGMwM2E3OGU3/ZDc3ZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}