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Top performers want to work with top performers. One speaker recruited Jack from Gusto through a connection made at Zenefits, building an all-star team through referrals. Leaders who tolerate underperformance lose the A-players they need.

Top performers want to work with top performers. One speaker recruited Jack from Gusto through a connection made at Zenefits, building an all-star team through referrals. Leaders who tolerate underperformance lose the A-players they need.
I knew him from Zenefits and he brought in an incredible person named Jack from Gusto. So you just like continue down this path of leveraging the networks, your personal network and the networks of others that are top performers within the organization. And before you know it, you have this really unbelievable team of all-stars.
One is like, it's so simple, but you are the company you keep. Like if you're surrounded by a, like, um, This can, you, depending on how you interpret this, but like the best way to celebrate overperformance is not to tolerate underperformance. But like A players wanna be with A players. It's the fact that I surround myself with these incredibly talented, selfless, hardworking people who just go and execute every single day, all day. And if they don't have that, then they're probably not the leader you're looking for.

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