10X Talent: Hiring A-Players
The #1 make-or-break issue in Scaling Up is building the right team.
Building an A-team is easy when you’re a team of 10 or 15. The challenge is doing it as you scale beyond that.
The dilemma is you can’t afford hiring mistakes, yet you have to delegate hiring to relatively inexperienced hiring managers! Being involved in every hiring decision no longer works as you scale, despite best intentions. That means you’ll have young, busy managers making key hiring decisions. That’s risky. Recruiting just 2 or 3 B-players can fundamentally ham-string your growth trajectory, because B-players recruit C-players, the weakest link brings down company performance, and it’s all downhill from there.
Source: 10x-e
