A short excerpt from a Cameron Herold YouTube video offering practical guidance for hiring an executive team: hire strong functional experts who are true team players and prioritize candidates who have actually done the specific work required over the next 12 months (practical experience, not just theory).
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The way that you can ensure that you're hiring the right executive team to make your vision come true is to ensure that you're building out a team of experts in each of the functional areas that first off can really work well together as a team. And they're not going to be just focused on their silos. They're really working on that first layer team as being the most important team. So true team players that are very strong in their functional areas and can really work well together as a team. Secondly is you want to get a group of experts that have actually done before. Really, you take a look at what is on their plate over the next 12 months, and you're hiring people that have actually done that work before. They don't necessarily just have the theory to do it, but they've actually practically done it before as well. That's really where your true A level team comes in.