Leadership: Hiring & recruitment
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Dynamic reteaming: how and why to embrace team change
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 18, 2024
Management
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Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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- Five distinct patterns explain every team change — and each has its own playbook.
- Spreading high performers across teams destroys the chemistry that made them high-performing.
- Transparent reorgs with public whiteboards outperform secret top-down announcements.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring a second-in-command: when, who, and how to get it right
Cameron Herold
January 17, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
10
Long-term planning
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- The $10M–$30M mark is when every CEO needs a second-in-command.
- Hire people who have done the job — not just those who know how.
- Job postings should repel 50% of readers to attract the right 50%.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
EOS People Analyzer: Right People, Right Seats
EOS Worldwide
January 17, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
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Business operating systems
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- People Analyzer combines core values with Accountability Chart.
- GWC test: Get it, Want it, Capacity to perform.
- Removes subjectivity from all personnel decisions.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring a COO: how to find the right second in command
Cameron Herold
January 10, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
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Management
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- The COO role is defined entirely by what the CEO lacks
- Hiring on pedigree without culture fit ends in costly misfires
- A structured 90-day observe-then-act onboarding prevents early mistakes
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to cut sales team attrition with better hiring and onboarding
Cameron Herold
December 13, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
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- High sales attrition is caused by poor interviewing, not poor salespeople
- Two weeks of structured onboarding beats throwing people into the fire
- A 10-obstacle brainstorm turns a 20% failure-rate goal into a 20-point plan
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
What a probationary period is and how to structure one
HR Party of One
December 12, 2023
- Both employer and employee can exit with little or no notice
- Goals must target learning, independence, and team assimilation
- Missing goals ends in termination; hitting them unlocks a permanent role
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Why visionaries stall on hiring an Integrator
EOS Worldwide
December 5, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Identity & self-belief
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Business operating systems
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- Fear — not cost or timing — is always the real blocker.
- Four distinct fears map to four specific resistance types.
- Forcing a decision before fear is resolved causes false starts.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build a tech startup without technical skills
Y Combinator
November 30, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Business models
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- Recruiting a great technical co-founder is the only real job.
- Dev shops and freelancers make a software startup nearly impossible.
- Pitch adventure and co-ownership — not your idea needing a builder.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
17 interview questions that reveal self-awareness and judgment
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 29, 2023
- The best questions make rehearsed, optimised answers impossible.
- Eigenquestion test: which two questions unlock the most decisions?
- Ask referees what feedback they'll give in the first review.
Leading with Authenticity: Culture, COO Role, and Scaling People
Cameron Herold
November 29, 2023
Culture building
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Hiring & recruitment
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Delegation
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- Genuine personal care for employees drives harder work than any incentive.
- The COO is the brakes to the CEO's gas — hire one who handles what you can't.
- Stop motivating people; hire self-motivated ones and reverse-engineer their goals.
Why your business feels hard: your team lacks basic management skills
Cameron Herold
November 27, 2023
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
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- 95% of managers have never been trained to interview
- Untrained teams default to hiring as the fix for every problem
- Email, meetings, delegation — fixable with training most skip
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build and retain a COO as your company scales
Cameron Herold
November 26, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Scaling infrastructure
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- Most COOs hit a ceiling after two company doubles
- A COO must be strong where the CEO is weak
- Visible founder confidence keeps a COO from freezing under pressure
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build a team from startup to £1m profit
KeyPersonOfInfluence
November 26, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
7
Processes & SOPs
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- Four military team sizes map directly to business growth stages
- Going past 12 people traps you in a costly no-man's land
- A 35-person team structured around five C-suite roles targets seven-figure profit
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring the right COO for each stage of company growth
Cameron Herold
November 20, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
5
- The COO who scales you to $100M can't take you to $450M.
- Match the COO to your stage, not just their resume.
- Two early-stage COO types: the partner and the confidant.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to define and hire the right COO for your business
Cameron Herold
November 19, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
10
Delegation
8
Vision & mission
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- Hire for your exact weaknesses, not a generic COO template
- Leaning three years into the future sharpens the brief dramatically
- CEO and COO belong at the bottom of the org chart, not the top