Cameron Herold says leaders fail at hiring because they never learned to interview, coach, or run meetings. He compares it to sending a kid to play sports without teaching the basics. Most businesses promote people into leadership without any training in these core skills.
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People will complain all the time but it's so hard to find good people. I'm like no you suck at interviewing. You know our meetings suck. No you suck at running meetings. They forget that they don't have the core skills to do what they're doing. You know you would never send a kid off to play little league baseball or cricket or rugby or soccer without teaching them the basics of the sport, right? And then in business we have all these leaders that they know how to do their they might know marketing, they might know finance, they might but they don't know how to manage a team, they don't know how to coach, they don't know how to run one on one meetings, they don't know how to run normal meetings and yet they're struggling through that on the day to day thinking business is hard just because they don't have any training at the core.