Ep. 284 – Pressbooks COO, Basak Büyükçelen

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Careers

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Basak Büyükçelen, Chief Operations Officer for Pressbooks. Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Basak describes herself as a storyteller, film enthusiast, photographer, IT manager, extrovert and immigrant living in Montreal. She is the founder of Supper Society and co-founder of Code Forward. Basak is also a published photographer and has edited and translated […]

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Herald, the founder of the Second Command Podcast.
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0:39.5	I'll tell you about number two in a bit but first let's start this week's episode. You do your
0:44.4	regular screening process you have to have a very good hiring process in place. What I
0:48.8	also find is we do cultural interviews and often you should call them cultural ad interviews you're not
0:53.7	going to fit somebody into your culture like you're trying to add more to your culture by bringing
0:58.7	these different people from different backgrounds let's say but it's not just the hiring canon. I think where we are forgetting that it's super important to do is to
1:06.1	train ourselves to read how does someone from a different culture behave. produced by the COO Alliance and brought to you by its founder Cameron Herald.
1:25.0	In the second in command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies, and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.
1:34.0	And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.
1:38.0	Welcome listeners to another exciting episode of the second and command
1:44.8	podcast. Today we have the pleasure speaking with a true visionary in the
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