Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent
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Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent
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Tyler's success at discovering and enabling the most talented people before anyone else notices them boils down to four components:
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
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How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his t
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-Distribution: Tyler promotes the opportunity in such a way that the talent level of the application pool is extraordinarily high and the people who apply are uniquely earnest.
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
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Finding Undiscovered Talent
joincolossus.comJay Matthews and added
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You want to find opportunities for talent arbitrage: for example, find people who are excellent at their craft but struggle at self-presentation or public speaking. Others will write them off before seeing what they have to offer — and you get to harness them for their skill while either hiding or improving their weaknesses.
Erik Torenberg • Frameworks for Hiring
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