Leadership: Hiring & recruitment

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Hiring & recruitment

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Finding the right integrator using Colby's cognitive assessment

EOS Worldwide September 20, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 6
  • Visionaries need complementary action styles, not someone wired like them
  • Colby measures hardwired execution instincts — unchanged, unlike values or skills
  • "Pizza-level decision" framework prevents visionaries micromanaging integrators

Hiring & recruitment

Podcast

Cloud Forecast's first hires: onboarding, expansion revenue, and the summer slowdown

Startups For the Rest of Us September 8, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 8
Retention & loyalty 7
Resilience & grit 5
  • A structured onboarding wiki made their first engineer productive in week one.
  • 10-hours-a-week SDR revealed part-time outbound sales simply doesn't work.
  • 100% renewals and expanding MRR give Cloud Forecast net negative churn.

Hiring & recruitment

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Five habits that separate A-players from average performers

Dr. Grace Lee August 24, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 8
Management 6
Identity & self-belief 5
  • Stagnancy physically repels A-players — momentum is their default state.
  • Extreme ownership means zero blame, full accountability, fast course-correction.
  • Boredom is a warning sign: A-players disengage when under-utilised.

Communication

Podcast

How to own your career growth as a product leader

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth August 4, 2022


Communication 10
Identity & self-belief 7
Hiring & recruitment 6
  • PM your career like a product: roadmap, metrics, and peer feedback loops
  • Speaking on the spot — fairly or not — is rocket fuel for senior careers
  • Facebook Marketplace won on trust, not traffic: real identity changed everything

Hiring & recruitment

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Recognising and eliminating recruiting bias in hiring

HR Party of One August 4, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Compliance & regulation 7
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Most hiring bias is unconscious — your process enables or prevents it.
  • Four bias types that quietly skew candidate evaluation every time.
  • Practical fixes: manager manuals, neutral job posts, skills assessments.

Hiring & recruitment

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DEI leadership, accountability, and psychological safety at work

HR Party of One July 28, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Culture building 9
Management 8
  • Employees should hold formal power over whether a leader stays.
  • DEI fails when it stops at training — embed it into hiring first.
  • High tactical performers who drive out talent should be fired.

Hiring & recruitment

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Common hiring mistakes founders make before product-market fit

Y Combinator May 19, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Product-market fit 7
Business models 5
  • Most startup hiring advice is written for the wrong stage.
  • Hiring before product-market fit accelerates death, not growth.
  • Over-hiring is the leading cause of runway death post-YC.

Hiring & recruitment

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Thirteen business lessons from eleven years of running a company

Silicon Valley Girl April 29, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 8
Resilience & grit 8
Processes & SOPs 7
  • Why the founder is irreplaceable — and can't delegate their way out early on
  • Customer obsession beats competitor tracking every time
  • Toxic hires damage culture more than talented ones help it

Hiring & recruitment

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How to prevent candidate ghosting in your hiring process

HR Party of One April 28, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • 84% of job seekers admit to ghosting an employer recently
  • Hiding salary in job descriptions wastes everyone's time
  • Stop ghosting candidates — it costs you brand and customers

Hiring & recruitment

Podcast

Five surprising ways to rethink your hiring

Masters of Scale April 12, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Culture building 7
  • Hire for cultural fit and long-term vision, not just immediate availability.
  • Build your own talent by developing generalists into specialized roles over time.
  • Remove geographic barriers to access the world's best candidates, not just local ones.

Hiring & recruitment

YouTube

How to hire faster: a seven-stage framework

HR Party of One March 31, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Prospecting & outreach 5
  • Disclosing salary in job postings eliminates the biggest time-waster in hiring.
  • Treat recruiting like a sales funnel — timing and follow-up decide the outcome.
  • One person accountable for both recruiting and hiring outperforms split roles.

Hiring & recruitment

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One-on-one, panel, and group interview formats compared

HR Party of One March 10, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 5
  • One-on-one suits most roles but amplifies single-interviewer bias.
  • Panels reduce blind spots and raise accountability for senior hires.
  • Group interviews efficiently screen many candidates for lower-level roles.

Hiring & recruitment

YouTube

How to choose and use recruiting assessments in HR

HR Party of One February 24, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Compliance & regulation 6
  • Screening filters quantity; assessment judges quality — don't conflate them.
  • Myers-Briggs should never be used for hiring decisions.
  • Every assessment must prove job-related necessity or it creates legal exposure.

Hiring & recruitment

Podcast

Always be recruiting: Paul English on building world-class teams

Masters of Scale January 18, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Culture building 6
Customer experience 5
  • First 10 hires become cultural co-founders who shape the next hundred and thousand employees.
  • Move fast on recruiting—make offers within seven days through process-driven, specific questioning.
  • Hire for your weaknesses and stay close to customers to refine your product.

Management

Podcast

Groves and Oppenheimer: leadership lessons from the Manhattan Project

Founders November 9, 2021


Management 9
Hiring & recruitment 7
Case studies 7
  • Two opposites built the bomb — each filled the other's fatal weakness
  • Groves froze designs mid-project and forced months of decisions in one day
  • Oppenheimer's top lesson: every organisation needs one single leader

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