Kurt Wilkin On Who’s Your Mike? Addressing the Most Challenging People Decisions Holding You Back EP 167

Kurt Wilkin and I discuss his new book Who's Your Mike?: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to the People You'll Meet on Your Entrepreneurial Journey. | Brought to you by ZocDoc (https://www.zocdoc.com/passionstruck).

Kurt Wilkin is an experienced entrepreneur and founder of Hire Better. In his debut book, Who’s Your Mike? Kurt reveals how entrepreneurs can transform their companies by minimizing hiring mistakes, investing in high potentials, and making the difficult decisions to drop dead weight from their team.

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What I discuss With Kurt Wilkin About Who's Your Mike

Kurt and I discuss why, by putting the right talent in the right places—and pinpointing who is holding the company back—entrepreneurs can unlock meaningful change that will enable their organization to grow, scale, and thrive. We discuss avatars from the book written as a la “choose your own adventure,” so entrepreneurs can pick and choose the chapters that will be most helpful to them.

0:00 Teaser and Annoucements 2:43 Introducing Kurt Wilkin 4:13 Big 4 Accounting Foundation 7:22 Failure was not an option 8:00 Who's Your Mike origin 15:13 The problem with PowerPoint  18:34 Why not rely solely on psychometrics 23:09 The importance of the utility player 26:08 Betty gone bad 27:41 Harry the hustler 32:57 Why growth is hard 35:29 Two-in-the-box concept 39:24 The problem with most CHROs 43:35 Why the recruiting industry is broken 47:51 When the CEO is not right to lead the company 52:42 Analysis and wrap-up  Where to Find Kurt Wilkin:

*Website: https://www.kurtwilkin.com/ 

*Hire Better: https://hirebetter.com/ 

*LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurt-wilkin-7345255/ 

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/kurtwilkin/ 

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* My solo episode on Why Average Choices Lead to an Average Life: https://passionstruck.com/why-average-choices-lead-being-mediocre/

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