Leadership: Hiring & recruitment
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Building a values-based business through strengths and manager development
Bill Gallagher
February 27, 2019
Culture building
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Management
8
Hiring & recruitment
5
- Only 2% of companies formally train managers to engage employees
- Managers define culture in practice — 75% of exits are their fault
- Strengths-based role design can flip engagement from 35% to 70%
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to lead and manage an Enneagram Type 2 at work
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
November 26, 2018
Hiring & recruitment
9
Outsourcing & delegation
8
Resilience & grit
7
- Type 2s build identity through relationships — it drives everything they do
- Twos take criticism harder than any other Enneagram type
- Affirmation is their core need; you cannot do enough of it
Leading Enneagram Type 3: practical do's and don'ts for managers
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
November 26, 2018
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Type 3s need a scoreboard — clear goals beat vague missions.
- Unchecked Threes cut corners and run over colleagues to win.
- Hire for character first; bad character cancels every other strength.
How Sportique built a people-first business that profits by design
Bill Gallagher
November 21, 2018
Culture building
9
Case studies
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
- One bad culture hire can infect a whole team and poison customer relationships.
- Shoot for purpose and excellence — profit follows, but not the reverse.
- Values only stick when leaders model them and hiring filters for them first.
Building a team that stays: what great leaders actually do
Bill Gallagher
October 10, 2018
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Management
5
- Stop running the company — your job is finding people smarter than you.
- Ask employees their life dream before telling them yours.
- Retention follows when people believe the company serves their mission too.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find, evaluate, and close engineering hires at a startup
Y Combinator
September 26, 2018
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Management
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- Interviews are as noisy as random movie reviews — structure fixes this.
- Personal networks beat all other sourcing channels, especially early on.
- Speed and transparency in offers close candidates big companies can't.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find, hire, and interview designers for your startup
Y Combinator
September 19, 2018
Hiring & recruitment
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Customer discovery
5
- A lone designer among 20 engineers is a retention risk by design.
- Skip portfolio beauty — communication skill is the real hiring filter.
- Post to 20 freelancers at once, then recruit the standout personally.
How to find, keep, and nurture creative talent in your company
Founders
September 3, 2018
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Why credentials matter less than passion and reading habits
- Naysayers kill creativity — force them to improve ideas instead
- Every great innovation was called impossible by experts first
Hiring & recruitment
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Tying pay to tasks and titles, not inflated job labels
Cameron Herold
January 29, 2018
- Inflated titles make employees expect pay their work doesn't justify
- Price the tasks first, then assign the title
- Three sub-levels per role prevent premature title inflation
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to recruit, hire, onboard, and grow a COO
Cameron Herold
November 1, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Vision & mission
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- Hire an EA before a COO — it frees 50% of your time immediately.
- A-players aren't job-hunting; you must poach them via a search firm.
- After hiring, stop starting things — every idea flows through the COO.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring for attitude: why undeveloped great teammates beat skilled bad ones
Noah Kagan
August 23, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
5
- The best hires are undeveloped people with great character, not top performers
- Skilled bad teammates are mercenaries — useful contractors, destructive as employees
- You can teach skills; you cannot teach someone to be a good teammate
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Six lessons for rebuilding an eight-figure business from scratch
Noah Kagan
July 18, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- Hire band members, not rock stars — mavericks lose to teams
- Board members who disagree with you are your most valuable asset
- Real autonomy outperforms micromanagement — set the goal, then step back
Ten commandments of startup success from Reid Hoffman and Tim Ferriss
Masters of Scale
July 5, 2017
Culture building
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Hiring & recruitment
7
- Rejections are data — a squirmy no signals you're onto something real.
- Do things that don't scale first: hand-craft the experience for your first users.
- Move fast, but build stable infrastructure before speed breaks everything.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Leading through scale: lessons from Sheryl Sandberg at Google and Facebook
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Management
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- Why your team's silence means you're already the bottleneck
- Hiring for roles that never existed before requires abandoning prior experience
- Mission is the one plan leaders must never break
Using CliftonStrengths to develop yourself and your team
Bill Gallagher
March 26, 2017
Culture building
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Being well-rounded makes you average, not excellent.
- Talent — not IQ — is the real driver of performance.
- Team strength maps reveal hidden biases and hiring blind spots.