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The balance between personal and professional effectiveness
Proactivity versus reactivity
The importance of defining your path in life
Fixing hiring mistakes
- Know that while you're going to hate firing someone, you'll feel way better after the fact.
- Realise that the great people on your team will be happy that you've done it as they knew the person wasn't working out. But watch how you fire people, as others will watch how you deal with people.
- Realise that you're often doing the person a favour as you're releasing them from a role where they won't get promoted or valued.
Be sure to value the people on your team as they are exceptional.
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Drive
You can see drive in a candidate's eyes and background.
- Look for what someone has done, not just been involved in or been part of. For example, they started a business in high school. They started and ran a nonprofit in high school.
- If you can't find anything - if the ...
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Ethics
Unethical people are unethical by nature, and the odds of conversion are quite low. Ministers and priests should give people another chance, not hiring managers at startups.
- One way to test for honesty is to see how they react when they don't know something. They'll either say they do...
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Curiosity
Someone who loves what they do will read about it, study it, talk to other people about it, immerse themselves in it and work like anything to stay current.
Anyone who isn't curious doesn't love what they do. And you should hire people who love what they do.
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Criteria for hiring great people
People will tell you to hire for intelligence, but intelligence is overrated. Other hiring criteria are equally or more important.
- Drive. Self-motivation will cause people to push and push until they succeed.
- Curiosity. Anyo...
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How to run the hiring process
- Have a written hiring process and ensure everyone has a paper copy of it. Many startups have a random hiring process and hire randomly.
- Do basic skills tests. Ask them basic questions about how to do things in their domain. For a sales rep, have them...
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- Decide when to meet and for how long. For example, a monthly one-hour meeting so that each team member can read the book, write a book summary, and give their inputs.
- Choose a book selection.
- Decide on a meeting format. Du...
How the Gish gallop is implemented
- In live debates, a person using the Gish gallop will fire off arguments one after another to attempt to overwhelm the opponent.
- In online discussions, Gish gallopers will list a large number of sources that supposedly support their stance. They wil...
How to let a movement happen
- First, the leader needs to have the guts to stand out and be mocked.
- A leader's first follower has a crucial role: he will show everyone else how to follow.
- Next, the leader embraces the first follower as an equal. Now it'...
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