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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Managing Employees 101 (Part 6) - How To Spot A-Players with A-Player Personified Samantha Lynn

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

“Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.” - Guy Kawasaki (The marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist.)

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0:00.0

Two men, 13 multimillion dollar businesses, eight kids, one business coach radio show.

0:08.6

It's the Thrive Time Business Coach Radio show.

0:11.3

Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show.

0:13.7

That's it.

0:14.7

Arms away. We started from the bottom and we'll show you how to get here.

0:23.0

Started from the bottom now we're here.

0:25.0

We started from the bottom of we here.

0:28.0

Okay, Thrive Nation.

0:31.0

This is the final part of our six part epic series on how to manage

0:36.8

employees. This is part six of our journey and we're talking about spotting a players. How to spot our of an A player personified, our thrive employee of the month.

0:56.8

Her name is Samantha.

0:58.7

Now, Samantha, we have a lot of employees, a lot of good guys,

1:02.4

a lot of good ladies that work there, but Jonathan manages everybody directly.

1:07.0

He manages a lot of people.

1:08.0

And so I get all my feedback from John, and then I also watch anecdotally the results and why Samantha is the

1:16.4

employee of the month is because she is getting better in each of the four E's that Jack Welch says you have to have if you want to be an A player.

1:27.5

So Jack Welch, the number one CEO of all time, arguably, who grew GE the once stagnant company by 4,000 percent during his tenure.

1:37.3

He said if you're looking for an A player you want to look for these four E's, the four E's.

1:41.7

They're written about in the book

1:43.0

Winning by Jack Welch, the best management book ever written by the way.

1:47.5

You got to buy that book, buy that book, buy that book, buy

1:49.6

Jack Welch's book winning. It's unbelievable. But this is what Jack Welch says. He says the four e's. E number one,

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