Dan Martell - June 17, 2023


My Coaching Client Wasted $350K


Episode Stats


Length

33 seconds

Words per minute

208.30861

Word count

117

Sentence count

6


Summary

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When you hire people that have done things before, it's going to look different than the way you want it done. When you hire someone that has been in the business for a long time, there's a high likelihood that they'll have a culture fit.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I had a client I coached, 15 million ARR,
00:00:02.500 and they bring in this COO, culture fit,
00:00:04.600 and finally pulled the trigger,
00:00:05.860 a 350 a year type of hire.
00:00:07.680 What happened was,
00:00:08.680 because I heard it from the other co-founder,
00:00:10.560 the one that was more operationally focused
00:00:13.320 kept getting in the way of the COO.
00:00:16.520 Nine months later, that person quit.
00:00:19.020 Not because they couldn't do the job,
00:00:20.500 they couldn't do the job
00:00:21.500 with the person being involved in the business.
00:00:24.020 When you hire people that have done things before,
00:00:26.220 it's gonna look different than the way you want it done.
00:00:29.080 So my rule is I focus on outcomes
00:00:31.760 and I don't worry about the activities.