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Decision-Making and Hiring for Management
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The slowest part in a chain always limits output, similarly, not making important decisions can block progress. Hence, hiring the smartest people and coaching them on their careers with a structured meeting policy can help in the better management of a team.
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The speaker shares their philosophy of hiring people who are smarter than them, coaching them on their career, and setting a structure to give direction to the team of all-stars they create.
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The speaker shares their philosophy of hiring people who are smarter than them, coaching them on their career, and setting a structure to give direction to the team of all-stars they create.
ChapterDecision-Making and Hiring for Management
Episode#369: Kevin Systrom — Tactics, Books, and the Path to a Billion Users
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Instagram co-founder, Kevin Systrom discovered that decision-making was a bottleneck for the company.
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Instagram co-founder, Kevin Systrom discovered that decision-making was a bottleneck for the company. To address this issue, they started holding meetings where they made a bunch of decisions from a list of products waiting to be processed and worked through them systematically.
ChapterDecision-Making and Hiring for Management
Episode#369: Kevin Systrom — Tactics, Books, and the Path to a Billion Users
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The Goal is a book that explains how the slowest part in the chain limits productivity and output, using a story involving a troop of boy scouts.
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The Goal is a book that explains how the slowest part in the chain limits productivity and output, using a story involving a troop of boy scouts. The same concept is applied to decision making, explaining how indecision can hinder progress.