The Team You Build — Leadership

You Are a Teacher, Not a Babysitter

• Customer Service • Leadership • Management • The Team You Build • Training

You Are a Teacher, Not a Babysitter

Managing isn't instructions going down and results coming up. It's building a team that pushes itself to get better. A debate exercise borrowed from Tibetan monks, the one-year coffee, and how I finally got a chronic over-apologizer to stop.

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Hire the Scrapper, Not the Resume

• Hiring • Leadership • Team Building • The Team You Build

Hire the Scrapper, Not the Resume

Nobody on the team that built Smoke Cartel had the job title they ended up needing. Including me. Here's why I stopped expecting the perfect resume, and what I hire for instead.

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