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Boss Talk #2

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Are You a Paranoid Optimist?

People rush ahead too fast, he says. You start scaling too early before you really have that product market fit. Lying to yourself is probably the one of the greatest dangers that you have a CEO because you know you're always trying to be optimistic but if you take that too far and lie to yourself you can you can get yourself into a lot of trouble. Yes, a paranoid optimist. This is a good one for you because you've just been going through this beyond executive search. What are the most successful tactics you've used to source great leadership BP talent? Yeah. And whenever it was that chart. It was that data bricks when they showed like look we're beating our sales

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