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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

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How to Hire People for Jobs You Don't Want to Do

I learned early on to hire people for jobs that I didn't want to do. The metric is, am I good at this or somebody going to be better at this? You know, and a good place to look is the things that you hate doing and hire somebody to do those because they'll do them well. And then the next step was I actually came to enjoy sales. It turned out I still shouldn't do it because other people who are professional and who'd spent their entire lives had it were better at it than me. So hiring professional salespeople was important. Now when I do hiring, I always post the jobs on Indeed. I always go outside of my network. To

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