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Hire Slow, Fire Fast Is Wrong - Part 1

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

'Hire Slow, Fire Fast' is catchy. And wrong.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools.

0:02.0

Higher Slow Fire Fast is wrong.

0:07.0

Part 1.

0:08.0

The night's cast answers these questions.

0:11.0

What does Higher Slow Fire Fast mean? What's wrong with it? What should I do? Well if you want answers these questions and more, keep listening. Here we go.

0:27.0

Often groups really like trainings. The day is high energy, the content sounds exciting and at the end of the day everyone is fired up. But maybe you've

0:31.0

experienced that after that there's a loss of momentum.

0:34.0

No matter how great the content, it can be hard to make behavioral changes

0:38.0

both for ourselves and within the group, which is why we created Enterprise Reporting, so that you and your team can not only

0:45.2

implement the manager tools Trinity over time, but you can also measure your changed behaviors.

0:51.6

Sustain change over time to support the goals of the organization is why we created enterprise reporting.

0:57.7

And isn't that the measure of a successful training?

1:00.9

How many people are doing one-on-ones this week? How many pieces of feedback did John give to his team? How much value is my team getting out of that training? We can help. Send us a note and we'd be happy to tell you all about enterprise,

1:14.2

roadmap and EMC trainings in-house with your organization.

1:18.7

I are slow, fire fast. That doesn't sound terrible, Mark. I mean mean what's wrong with that?

1:25.0

No. It's great if you're 10 years old and you're trying to make a general point that doesn't hold up under tough scrutiny, but you know.

1:35.0

Tough scrutiny has no place in business.

1:38.0

Yeah, it has a kernel of truth to it, but it's also pretty misleading, I think think for a lot of people because if you're an

1:45.6

effective manager you can actually hire quickly and frankly you wouldn't terminate

1:52.2

someone's employment unless you had gone through long and careful consideration.

1:58.0

So I just suggested you can hire fast and we ought to ethically fire slowly. So three parts of the

2:07.5

cast. First of all, well I'll give you the organization. First we're going to

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