Employees Having Side Projects Are a Sign of Ambition, Not Competition

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There were certainly people who I don't know if I would say abuse the rules, but they took advantage of the system in which they Operated. If their goal was not to ascend within that company then maybe they spent a lot of their free time and Resources going toward the other things that were more important to them And it's really hard to filter that out when we have episodes on like how to hire people. The best way to filter that is to measure people on results and if they're not achieving them then You know to take care of that in one way or another and reward the people who are doing very good work.

It's human nature to worry about the things that can go wrong.

But often overlooked is the mentality of attraction instead of detraction, or in other words focusing on what you can bring to the table instead of what you can prevent from happening.

While so many companies signal they want entrepreneurial candidates yet don't allow side projects, want out of the box thinkers yet expect them to work in a box (office), and vow they only hire top talent yet pay below market rate... there's power in thinking through whether you're truly focusing on attracting the right people or just trying to prevent wrong behavior.

In this episode, Steph and Cal discuss the mentality of being a magnet instead of a jail, originally inspired by this tweet of Steph's.