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Signs of Excellence

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Lenny’s Podcast107 min

Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft

Luc Levesque · Jun 15, 2023
Key learnings
  • Focus relentlessly on impact over activity: measure outcomes against the north-star metric rather than hours worked or work…
  • Hire the top 1% by looking for repeated 'signs of excellence' in a candidate's history, such as multiple standout achievements…
  • Recruit with the whole executive team and involve the candidate's spouse or family, since changing companies is a family…