8 Lessons To Build Your Executive Team

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Episode 39: If you’ve gotten to the stage where you can hire executive leaders on your team, hiring the right people can make or break your business. Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) shares his 8 lessons over 8 years to help you build your senior leadership team. Lesson 1: Know The Game You’re Playing Lesson 2: Focus On Their Words, Not Delivery Lesson 3: Be Open-Minded, Be Humble Lesson 4: Senior People Are Multipliers & Divisors Lesson 5: Senior Leaders Are Costly Lesson 6: Trust Is Earned, Not Assumed Lesson 7: Make The Interview As Real As Possible Lesson 8: References Should Be Valued Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! thecrazyones@morningbrew.com #TheCrazyOnes #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to The Crazy Ones here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch The Crazy Ones here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCrazyOnesPod Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Our Hosts! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the crazy ones. First off, I just
0:06.2	want to say one thing. This podcast is on fire right now. The audience has grown 50%
0:13.1	month over month and we have heard from hundreds, literally hundreds of listeners just in
0:19.0	the last week. As I'm recording this, looking at my packed inbox and I just want to call
0:24.8	out a few of you who wrote into the show. Isaac Roberts, Jordan Cohen, Tasha Cherian,
0:31.7	Alyssa McGinn, Ari Hirshenberg, Mackenzie Alameda, and so many more of you. I just wanted
0:38.0	to say thank you. Keep writing in at the crazy ones at MorningBrew.com. Let's keep building
0:43.0	this movement. Let's get a lot more crazies listening to the show. But let's switch to
0:47.2	the episode and do the damn thing. Today, I am talking about senior leaders during my
0:53.5	time building and running MorningBrew. I had the opportunity to hire, manage, and work
0:58.8	with a number of senior leaders. And I consider senior leaders to be anyone who is on your
1:04.3	company senior leadership team. Sometimes that's SVPs and EVPs. Other times it's VPs. It depends
1:10.2	on how you title people in your company. And senior leaders can make or break your company.
1:16.8	That's why I'm talking about this episode today. They can be rocket fuel or they can
1:20.7	be quicksand. And rarely is it anything in between. I'm going to share my biggest lessons
1:26.0	hiring and managing senior people to increase the odds of your senior people turning into
1:32.2	rocket fuel. Let's hop into it. What's up, everyone? I'm Alex Lieberman.
1:37.8	Yo, this is Jesse Pooji. And this is the crazy ones. Lesson number one. Know the game
1:48.4	you're playing. Some senior leaders are built to get you where you want to be 12 to 24
1:54.1	months from now. And that's okay. Others are built for the long haul. Either choice you
1:59.4	make is not necessarily right or wrong. You just have to know the game you're playing
2:04.3	and decide the trade-offs that you are okay with as a leader. If you're hiring for the
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