Aaron Wade
Founder, Homeroom. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Erin Wade is an entrepreneur and former corporate attorney who founded the Oakland-based restaurant Homeroom. She developed the Color Code of Conduct for preventing workplace harassment and authored The Mac & Cheese Millionaire.
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15statements
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Everything Aaron Wade said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Erin Wade: Happiness research shows childfree people are on average happier
“Studies on human happiness, like, show that people who choose not to have children are on average happier because they can just, like, do whatever they want all the time, you know.”
Wade: The Adversarial Legal Mindset Is a Destructive Way to Run Companies
“The legal worldview is, at least in America, it's an adversarial system. Two people take very extreme positions. You're, in fact, duty bound to take only that side, and they duke it out, and someone wins at the end. So there's no gray, there's no meeting in th…”
Erin Wade: Interview conversational skill does not correlate with job performance
“We will pay people to do, like, practice shifts or practice project, because talking is its own skill that has literally nothing to do with Most people's job performance.”
Erin Wade: Badmouthing a former employer in interviews is an immediate disqualifier
“Like, for me, if someone is going to speak negatively about a former employer, honestly, I mean, I talk about this in the book. I really think job interviewing is, like, so similar to dating in so many ways, and just, like, if you show up to a date and someone…”
Erin Wade: Job performance accounts for only 25% of Homeroom's hiring evaluation
“Many jobs, they're really only going to care about job performance. And so we're pretty clear that's really only about 25% of what we're evaluating on and so we're also going to ask a lot about our values and how we think that you might be able to live them an…”
Erin Wade: Great company culture requires coloring-book boundaries with creative freedom
“If you just give someone a blank piece of paper, everyone's going to create art that's totally different. If you give people you know, a paint by number, everyone's going to create something that is exactly the same. And I think my goal is actually to be like …”
Wade: Employees take less time off under unlimited vacation policies
“To my point about the vacation policy, if you tell people they can take however much they want, like, studies have shown they actually take less than at companies where there's just a set amount of weeks, and it's because people are actually afraid, like, even…”
Wade: Homeroom averaged 2.5-year employee tenure versus 90-day industry average
“In restaurants in America, anyway, the average tenure of an employee is 90 days. Our average tenure was two and a half years.”
Guiding staff through stakeholder analysis prevents divisive managerial rejections
“If you run things traditionally and hierarchically, people bring suggestions that are perhaps self-serving, and your job as a manager is to be like, no, or maybe to explain why, and it creates, like, a pretty divisive dynamic where you're at odds with each oth…”
Erin Wade: Start open-book management by tracking one metric and sharing upside
“I would say pick a number that you care about improving that is dynamic and is that employees can make a difference on. Start measuring it and then set a benchmark, you know, like that you'd like to reach and share the success.”
Wade: Restorative Discipline Replaces Punishment With Awareness of Harm
“With a restorative discipline approach, what you do is you sit down for a conversation. You basically are like, hey, you know, what happened? Someone says, I was late. And then you talk about who is affected. Well, turns out you know, you sort of walk them thr…”
Wade: Founders selling companies must accept that company culture will change
“The person who's really on the ground running something is really the most deeply responsible for the culture, and on all the people who are working Alongside them, right? Like, that's what creates the culture of that organization. I think I wanted to believe …”
Wade: The Restaurant Industry Is Facing a Historic Staffing and Profit Reckoning
“This is honestly one of the hardest times that I've seen in the restaurant industry in all the years I've been in it. I think we're sort of in a moment of reckoning and change. Costs have gone up. I think people are rethinking the meaning of work and what's wo…”
Wade: Managers Should Praise Work Rather Than Appearance for Positive Impact
“Even if 49 love it and one hates it, my guess is 50 out of 50 will like it if you compliment their work. Right, of course. Right? And so I think we'll just get a better impact.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Aaron's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Founder, Homeroom | 1 | 15 | 50% 1/2 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |