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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.”
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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 …”
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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…”
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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.”
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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…”
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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 …”
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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.”
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Erin Wade: Failing as a founder just meant returning to corporate law
“I realized that my worst case scenario was basically the life I was already living. So, so what did I have to lose?”