Latour: Replicate Early Hiring Playbooks Instead of Testing New Recruiting Channels
Renee Latour · Why Done Is Better Than Perfect Has Nothing to Do With Productivity · Dec 17, 2022 · at 9:04
Operations coach Renee Latour explains how businesses should address staffing bottlenecks when sales growth outpaces operational capacity.
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“I would go back to how they hired those amazing staff people to begin with. And follow that same mold. A lot of times people try to do new things. Like they're going different routes to recruit people. It's like, wait a second. How'd you get the first group of a players? How did you get all these great salespeople who are bringing in all this business? Do that same thing over and over again. Like don't fix something that's not broken.”
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