Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Jason M. Lemkin, June 10, 2023) where two speakers discuss hiring and team-building: leveraging personal and employee networks to recruit top performers, and maintaining high standards by not tolerating underperformance so A-players congregate together.
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. If you're surrounded by a like this can. Depending on how you interpret this. But, like, the best way to celebrate over performance is not to tolerate under performance. A players want to be with a player. 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.
