"Episode" 4 of our week-daily virtual coffee, which takes place in Alpha Collective's discord server: discord.gg/alphacollective from 8-9am EST. It's free and open to anyone from anywhere in the world.
As it's Thursday (and during the month of January), we're reading Superbosses by Sydney Finkelstein. Special props, flowers and shout out to Bez AKA @agentBzR who recommended the book and runs the session.
To note: Chat from today's episode can be found in cafe-chat channel in the discord and contains very links discussed
Show notes based on our discussion (as per Otter.ai's beta tool):
How can such a hiring process possibly work? It goes against everything corporate recruiters know. 7:14
Superbosses make their own rules 11:29
Supervisors don’t want just a candidate who has the skills they want to enable them to reach new heights, they want someone who has 19:16
If you are the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. 23:30
How supervisors often look for specialists who can only do one thing they want. 29:25
What are your thoughts on how superbosses hire differently? 35:04
Ralph Lauren’s contribution to American culture. 39:20
The concept of the “specialized generalist” 45:21
Being a super boss doesn’t mean it’s a walk. 50:20
Is all this hard-charging whip cracking perfectionism ultimately counterproductive? 55:26
The business model of having a creator coin 1h01
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