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The Game with Alex Hormozi

Hot off the press. πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ GYM LAUNCH TENET #2: DONT SUGARCOAT IT... Talk To Your Employees Like You Do Behind Their Backs... >>How to Spot Talent And Identify Cancers | Ep 100

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

How To, Business, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.9 β€’ 4.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

"It’s about having honest conversations, not sugarcoating them." Today, Alex (@Alexhormozi) discusses the importance of identifying talent and "cancers" in the workplace, shares examples of successful and unsuccessful promotions, and how overconfidence and pride can lead to difficulty managing star performers.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(0:37) - Identifying talent and spotting cancer in the workplace

(2:16) - The impact of ego on management

(3:40) - Difference between prideful and productive employees

(8:35) - Identifying prideful people in the interview process

(9:53) - The benefits of being a truth-teller in the workplace

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Real quick, you guys already know that I don't run any ads on this and I don't sell anything.

0:04.6

The only ask that I can ever have are you guys that you help me spread the words.

0:07.8

We can not more entrepreneurs, make more money, feed their families,

0:10.9

make better products, and have better experiences for their employees and customers.

0:14.9

The only way we do that is if you can rate and review and share this podcast.

0:19.4

The single thing that I have to do is leave review.

0:21.9

I'll take you 10 seconds or one type of the thumb.

0:23.9

It would mean the absolute world to me.

0:25.2

More importantly, it may change the world of someone else.

0:28.4

I'm super stoked to be making this for you.

0:30.8

This one is hot off the press.

0:32.7

We just finished an hour and a half long meeting reviewing all of our individual

0:38.0

teammates. We have over 70 employees at Jim launch.

0:41.2

Yes, 7-0. Crazy. It was such a great example.

0:45.9

Don't sugarcoat it. I wanted to share this with you so that you guys could

0:49.5

use some of these frameworks to spot talent.

0:52.2

When you're interviewing people, spot talent on your team that might be under utilized.

0:56.0

Then, on the flip side, identify cancers.

0:58.8

People who are not serving your community or are going to be blocking the growth.

1:07.8

How to spot talent in identify cancer.

1:09.8

One of the second ten of Jim launches, don't sugarcoat it.

1:14.7

At all times, our job as people within a company and especially as a CEO is to be a truth talent.

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