The biggest mistakes that i made as a ceo were always tied to hiring. And when i reflect on why i mis hired at many points in time, it usually boiled down to one of three buckets: wrong experience, wrong role or a rushed decision. In the past i've taken a bunch of individual needs in the business, needs that weren't getting done, and then lumped all of those needs together into a single job. I ended up hiring a senior person to do the job, only to realize a few months later that the job didn't need to exist. There was a reason these tasks weren't being done before, and it was because none of them were priorities. Bundling
From the outside it looks like I have it altogether. Nothing can be further from the truth. I have made countless mistakes & on this episode, I talk about my top 4.
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