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Managers should evaluate first-year employees by asking if they would rehire them
“One of the things we do is the first year is kind of a real big, I would say, I mean, people are hired, but it's kind of a test. The main question we ask at the end of the first year is would I hire this person again?”
Long-term corporate planning causes leaders to stop thinking
“What I don't like about long-term planning is you kind of stop thinking. It's like you thought something and now you live it out.”
Founders make a mistake by comparing customer counts with competitors
“This is, I think something entrepreneurs get wrong all the time. They compare themselves to someone else and they go, how many customers do they have? How many customers do they have? All that matters is do we have enough customers to make our own business wor…”
Most CEOs no longer build products and focus on firefighting
“To me, it has to be about like the product and making stuff. And most CEOs aren't involved with that anymore. They're involved with other things. They're involved with complicated things. They're involved with conflict. They're putting out fires all the time. …”
Wait weeks before responding to knee-jerk product change backlash
“So what I tend to do is, like, for any, like, immediate change-based feedback, I say, let's just sit on this for a while, and let's see what happens in a few weeks, because once the moment goes away and people start to get used to this thing, maybe they'll end…”
Most companies waste significant time solving problems they do not actually have
“And I think a lot of companies spend a lot of time solving problems they don't have. And then they solve them, they don't have them, and they think they did good work because they don't have the problem, but they wouldn't have had the problem in the first plac…”