Leadership
The Keeper Test
If this person quit, how hard would you work to keep them? Anyone you would not fight for gets generous severance now.
the typical employee test that people use is did they screw up enough that they deserve firing
Co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, co-author of No Rules Rules
Scaling
Leadership
If this person quit, how hard would you work to keep them? Anyone you would not fight for gets generous severance now.
the typical employee test that people use is did they screw up enough that they deserve firing
Reed Hastings
argues a company is a professional sports team, not a family. If you would not fight to keep someone and you think you can recruit better, you pay a generous severance and make the upgrade.
Brian Halligan
counters that outside candidates look shiny in interviews and you have not seen their warts, so managers overrate them and underrate homegrown people. When the call is close, he gives the internal person the shot.
From The Keeper Test