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an A-player is: ‘a candidate who has at least a 90 per cent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only the top 10 per cent of possible candidates could achieve.’
Felix Velarde • Scale at Speed: How to Triple the Size of Your Business and Build a Superstar Team
Bezos imbibed the necessity of hiring only super-‘A’ people and of holding everyone to very high performance standards. ‘A’ people, he realised, wanted to work with other ‘A’ people; admitting any ‘B’ people was the slippery slope to mediocrity and oblivion.
Richard Koch • Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the Nine Secrets of People Who Changed the World
There were tons of lessons, but I will pick three key ones. First, we recruited for talent, not experience.
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shah • Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
Who: The A Method for Hiring
Wilfried Portet • 2 cards
In order to add 500 people a year you need to change the way you approach and scale your recruiting organization, you need to think deeply about employee onboarding, and you need to maintain and evolve your culture. In this chapter we cover these and other shifts required to hire and manage talent.
Elad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
An Hour on Early Stage Hiring
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