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The Most Dangerous People To Hire

Alex retells Keith Rabois's cannon analogy: most new hires are just ammunition along for the ride, not bad enough to fire but not good enough to move the business, while what you actually need are barrels that increase your rate of firing.

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Key takeaways

  • Not anything that's going to drive the business.
  • You need to add barrels so that you can double your rate of firing, triple your rate of firing.

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  1. 0:00
    Abschnitt 1 When you bring someone into a company, does this person really increase the likelihood or goals actually or is it just a body?
  2. 0:36
    Abschnitt 2 The problem is there's so few barrels and so much ammunition.

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0:00When you bring someone into a company, does this person really increase the likelihood or goals actually or is it just a body? Keith Revois has this really good analogy around this. If you imagine a a Civil War cannon where you got multiple guys loading a can up and you've got these cannon balls and gunpowder, he said most people hire more people expecting that they're going to increase their their rate of firing, but that's not really the case. He said most people are ammunition. They're just along for the ride. They're not bad enough to fire, but not good enough to do anything. Not anything that's going to drive the business. You need to add barrels so that you can double your rate of firing, triple your rate of firing.

0:36The problem is there's so few barrels and so much ammunition.