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In this post, we share six questions you can use, in-person, to determine talent fit for the role. Using these questions, you will be able to infer important aspects of their behavior without having worked with them or observed them working before. Instead of a long-winded questionnaire— you can do this within 15 mins!
Today’s guest is Adam Jackson, a serial founder and currently the Founder & CEO at BrainTrust. Braintrust is the first user-controlled talent network that connects organizations with highly skilled tech talent. Adam and the Braintrust team are leveraging blockchain to cultivate a better incentives-aligned marketplace for skilled tech talent to thrive, and for large organizations to source the specialized talent they need.
Performance is a team sport. To maximize joy in what you do, you want to focus more on the activities you enjoy, the activities that you have a natural talent for, and minimize activities you aren't so good at. As such, you need to delegate activities to others— elicit their help! This doesn't mean you won't have to complete activities you don’t enjoy— there are activities that are natural necessities in life and work. The point is to focus most of your efforts and attention to the areas of your highest value.
Today’s guest is Elias Rubel, a serial founder and currently the Founder & CEO @Matter Made. His company is a B2B growth firm, focused on helping clients accelerate their outcomes through marketing, especially at the Series A level (post product-market fit). In this video, Eli talks about building a contemporary, incentives-aligned marketing company to support early-stage and growth start-ups.
Today’s guest is Adam Lawrence, a serial founder and currently the COO @Bolt. Adam is a growth-oriented startup leader with unique insights about manufacturing luck, hiring and unlocking talent, and being uncompromising about excellence. Adam is low-key, humble, and a builder by nature. His insights are based on first-hand experiences in the startup world. Enjoy!
Founder talent finds its way from all across the globe. However, not all of them have the right networks and resources to go from great idea to effective implementation. That’s where Unshackled VC comes in. Manan and the Unshackled VC team bring a high-performing approach to investing. They take the best, timeless practices of VC and make them even better!
There is a distinction between the habit of being productive and being busy —
Being busy is activity-based execution with no direction.
Being productive means executing the activities that bring you closer to the experience of personal and professional fulfillment.
So, review your activities and ask yourself:
What will completing those activities do for me?
What end result or goal do they lead me to?
