Dan Martell - October 11, 2023


Steve Jobs Said It Best：


Episode Stats


Length

37 seconds

Words per minute

275.46173

Word count

174

Sentence count

14


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the role of the frontline people in your organization and how they have the most context to make the best decisions. I also talk about why you should hire people who are going to push problems down to the frontlines.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Steve Jobs said it best.
00:00:00.920 He says, it's easy to hire somebody and tell them what to do.
00:00:02.900 It's hard to hire somebody and have them tell you what to do.
00:00:04.960 I want to hire people that are going to tell me what they're going to do.
00:00:07.580 If you're getting problems that are today problems,
00:00:10.260 you need to push them down to the frontline people
00:00:12.380 that actually have the most context to make the best decision.
00:00:14.640 A lot of times what happens is individual contributors at the frontline
00:00:17.240 get promoted into a leadership role,
00:00:19.040 but they show up like an individual contributor.
00:00:20.900 Come show it to me.
00:00:21.600 I'll work with you on it.
00:00:22.580 That's not how you want to show up as a leader.
00:00:24.240 A leader says, you do it.
00:00:26.400 And if you need help, I'm here to support you.
00:00:28.380 and 131 rule is just like one of the best methodologies for that. So it's one problem,
00:00:32.800 three viable options, one recommendation. 90% of the time, my feedback is sounds good, do that.