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How Do You Think About Time? The Psychology of Value per Hour and Getting More Done (with Nick Sonnenberg, Founder of Leverage)

Supermanagers

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Can You Hire More People to Increase Capacity?

Hiring should be a last resort versus in so many teams. Hiring adds exponential complexity, there's exponentially more ways for information to get transferred, retrieved, lost. So before I start hiring anyone, I first will push back and try to analyze is there any opportunities right now on the team to be more efficient? Because if I can get 10 people an extra four hours, that's 40 hours of additional capacity that we have there. That's like a full-time job. And then not only am I saving all those costs with salary and training, but I'm also putting a delay on having that extra complexity that people rush into.

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