what impresses you the most when you’re considering to work with someone or hire them to be part of your team this is a question that get asked all the time everybody wants to know who to hire and what I look for and obviously I look for someone that’s humble and I look for someone that’s balanced and really you know it’s one of those things where as much as you can before you hire someone get to know them and the advice we give people a national on front all the time when they’re looking to hire someone is we say look if you can hire them temporarily bring them on as a contractor for 90 days you have to see them in the environment that they’re actually going into they’re gonna be working in before you know what they’re really gonna be like because just like going through the screen people like crazy to go into SEAL training and it they can’t tell who’s gonna make it and who’s not gonna make it they just can’t tell and they you work with people in the SEAL Teams and you think you know what they’re gonna be like when you’re going to combat but you just can’t tell you can have a decent idea but you just can’t tell and so if you get the opportunity or the best way to do it is try and bring people on board in a temporary manner so you get to know them better and then once you know them you can either hire them or you can get rid of them easily next question make sense hey Jocko for a new entrepreneur or someone new to a leadership position who is meeting with their employees or direct report or direct reports for the first time what are some key things to address during that initial conversation as soon as you meet someone that’s going to be working for you you’re immediately making impression so we want to make a good impression we also don’t want to go okay it’s a it’s a dichotomy because you’re immediately building a relationship with them but you can’t go overboard and be all buddy-buddy with them that’s why I followed the Hackworth model and I actually took that to the next level Hackworth wouldn’t like laugh and joke around with the troops for six weeks I upped that to eight weeks because I’m a little bit more hardcore yeah so you but but one thing that’s good out of the gate is put out some brief general guidelines like some some of the most broad guidance that you can possibly give which is hey look here’s what’s important to me we’re going to do a great job we’re gonna work hard and this is our mission and this is what we’re gonna focus on and that’s it you don’t need to come out of the gate trying to show everyone that you’re the man you don’t need to do that guess what you’re the boss you actually de facto are the man so don’t run around and try and prove yourself out of the gate get to know them let that relationship build over time and that’s we’re gonna end up in the best situation Thank You sense you sort of did that to me even as friends like this like here yeah good to meet you here’s you good to meet you yeah eight weeks just like that
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