Boardroom 3 —Hiring

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🚪 Boardroom 3 — Hiring

Business leaders learn best from other business leaders. Share your experience applying these Rules or insights from the books that shaped them.

📌 Rule No. 22 —Hire slow, fire fast.

Who, by Geoff Smart and Randy Street

📌 Rule No. 24 —Own your mistakes.

Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

📌 Rule No. 31 —Delegate outcomes, not tasks.

Turn the Ship Around!, by L. David Marquet

📌 Rule No. 49 —People over processes.

The Human Side of Enterprise, by Douglas McGregor

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• Rule No. 22 —Hire slow, fire fast. | Who
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