Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Billionaire CEO: How I Hire People

24 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker outlines a hiring framework visualized as a two‑dimensional quadrant. The axes are (1) encouraging vs. not encouraging and (2) has done it before (experienced) vs. not done it (inexperienced). The ideal "A+" hire occupies the quadrant of both experienced and encouraging. The speaker notes that you can also include some experienced but not encouraging individuals for their expertise, and some encouraging but inexperienced people for morale, but warns against having too many discouraging, inexperienced "dream killers" who can sap motivation. The narrative also addresses a common misconception that success means outgrowing friends, clarifying that it actually reflects a need for new skills and a different supportive environment.

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I do a quadrant. The two parts is encouraging, not encouraging, has done it before, not done it. Now when we hire, and I do this for the people you put around yourself. Yep. The A plus person you want is someone that's done it and is encouraging. You can have some that's done it before, but they're not real encouraging. You can have a few of them around because they have experience, but you can't have too much negativity around you. No, you can't. the third one was someone that's very encouraging, but never done it. But the dream killers, those are people that are discouraging and they haven't done it. You know, we started being really successful. Some people would say, oh, you're outgrowing some friends. And no, you weren't outgrowing friends. You had new interest and new excitement and you needed a different skill set around you.