Will Humphreys asks himself each quarter: would I emphatically rehire each person for their current job? No maybes. The team that built your company may not be the team that scales it, so coach people into new roles or out.
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Are you a business owner who wants the dream team? Here's the single most important question I learned in building my four companies. Every quarter, I would sit down and ask myself, would I emphatically rehire each person for the job that they're doing? Emphatically. There was no maybes. It was a strong yes or it's a hard no. What's powerful about that question is that it frees us up to really look at the hard truth that that sometimes the people that got us here aren't the same people who are going to get us there. As we look at our situation, maybe there's people who need to be at a different seat on the bus, but either way, we're really clear that it's time to coach people up or out of our organization.