Puri: Great hires prove their excellence within three to four weeks
Shaan Puri · CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505) · Oct 10, 2023 · at 32:30
Shaan Puri shares hiring patterns and performance evaluation heuristics from running startups and teams.
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“The general rule is that the best people I've ever hired, it's pretty obvious within three, four weeks that they're amazing and that they just stay amazing. And of the people that were late bloomers, the key there was just the only consistent pattern I found was I hired somebody Before I even understood what role they should have or what the role is. And like when they had an undefined role, they didn't really do very well. But then when I defined a role for them and I said, look, this is what you got to do. They performed. And what I found is that when I have a defined role for someone and they're not very good. It never, never really changes for me.”
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