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Sports Motivation Podcast

Up On Game: How to hire the right people

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Sports, Business

4.9767 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Making the wrong decisions with who you hire, align with, and collaborate with, can cause incredible amounts of pain and frustration. Whether you own a business, or manage your sports career, it is crucial that you base your choices from your goals and values.
 
Today I introduce you to a very powerful book that laid out a practical framework for hiring the right people. #UpOnGame

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0:00.0

Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. This is your host, Nees Showbo. This is another episode of Up On Game.

0:07.8

It's where I introduce you to something that's very valuable to me. And I want to introduce it to you because I care about you. And I hope that you would do the same for me.

0:16.1

So this is actually a book that was recommended to me by my big bro, Dele, the one who actually

0:23.6

coined the phrase up on game.

0:26.3

Actually, I'm not sure if he made that up, but he would always use it.

0:29.1

And he was the king of slang.

0:30.4

He had all the words.

0:32.0

I'm going to put you up on game on another word that he used to say all the time.

0:35.7

So when we were young, I don't know, I had,

0:37.5

it was four of us total brothers.

0:39.8

And so there's a period of time where we all like

0:41.7

kind of wore similar style clothes

0:44.8

and even wore same sizes and things.

0:48.6

But we would actually get the same clothes.

0:50.9

And Delay would call it Twomped.

0:53.2

So he'd be like, yo, you you're trying to go you're trying to come

0:54.8

twomp today and that basically means you're trying to wear the same thing today so we both had on

0:59.6

you know a little flannel shirt little nautica flannel so he's like all right you're about to wear that

1:04.0

i'm about to wear that too uh so anyway that's getting twomped but anyway this book is called

1:10.1

who and when my brother came over last time,

1:15.6

he's been in business for a lot longer than me. And he has a pretty big company, relatively

1:22.4

speaking. And it's been going on for like almost 15 years now. And he has a basketball enterprise on the West Coast.

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