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Key takeaways
- >> Um, I will say that I have yet to have an A player that I don't know is an A player within the first week or two.
- And so I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages as headcount increases that you need to get through.
- And I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business, what the constraint feels like, like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it, and then what steps we actually took to graduate.
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Abschnitt 1 In terms [snorts] of hiring people, how do you spot an A player?
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Abschnitt 2 Now, of course, there's a little bit of onboarding.
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Abschnitt 3 >> All the tweets are mine.
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Abschnitt 4 And we've done this across software, physical products, uh, service businesses, brick and mortar, all of this, and it works.
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0:00In terms [snorts] of hiring people, how do you spot an A player? >> Um, I will say that I have yet to have an A player that I don't know is an A player within the first week or two. >> So, >> what are the signs? >> What are the signs? >> They immed so like support, right? They decrease the likelihood of failure. So, they are taking things off my plate really quickly. Um, and they're proactive in terms of their uh decision decision-m and the actions that they take. A lot of a lot of it is really just a tremendous amount of activity, high activity, high alignment. If you have both those things, you have somebody who's moving a lot of things in the right direction and ideally you get a lot of attention back. And so like if my life gets worse when someone starts, that's a bad sign. And if my life doesn't change when they start, that's also not that good of a sign either.
0:41Now, of course, there's a little bit of onboarding. You're going to have some of that. That's sure. But like by and large, I want to see some dramatic changes in how my time is getting allocated if I'm bringing somebody in, especially if they're taking things off my plate. But I think that works at all levels. And what's one of the things that you still insist on doing personally even though you could outsource it? >> Well, all the books. Um, I write all the books. I write all my emails. I write I mean I I do all the recording. Um, tweets.
1:09>> All the tweets are mine. Uh, all the tweets are mine. Honestly, every every piece of written word that comes out of acquisition.com um is me. And that is a huge amount of work. Real quick, I'm going to show you the exact 10-stage road map from zero to 100 million plus that less than 1% of companies finish I've now done multiple times. And so I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages as headcount increases that you need to get through. And I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business, what the constraint feels like, like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it, and then what steps we actually took to graduate.
1:44And we've done this across software, physical products, uh, service businesses, brick and mortar, all of this, and it works. And it's my gift to you. It's absolutely free. And so the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.comroadmap. Just enter your info and it'll spit it right back to you. Offering.