Underrated reason why businesses fail: The owner hires B players for leadership, and keeps them. How to hire A-players every time. Avoid these 15 red flags: 1. If someone obsesses about their title, they care more for optics than tactics. Titles chasers = clout chasers 2. They can't bring anyone with them as a new leader? Means no one thought they were worth following before. 3. If someone's calendar is unorganized and uncategorized... so is their life. Structured minds structure most things. 4. When someone is late to an interview, for any reason, ever, it's never worked out. Which is funny because I'm always late (red flag). 5. You interviewed someone before, they weren't right. So you gave them another chance. 9 times out of 10... trust your first gut. 6. When someone lists more than 2 jobs they have at any given time. No, you do not do 10 "board" positions simultaneously and well. 7. If someone has a new startup and a podcast? Immediate no. Grow the business, not your brand, first. 8. You walk into a startup founder's office and the walls are covered in articles about them... Don't invest. 9. They have a company with 3+ founders. That's a no. Too many cooks mean a disaster in the kitchen. 10. The founder prioritizes meetups and speaking events over doing the work. Ship product, then take interviews. 11. Someone refers to themselves as founder regularly & unprompted in conversation? No bueno. I started X company > I am a founder 12. A founder writes a slew of twitter threads while in the early stages of their non-media company. Run don't walk away. 13. A potential executive hire has a side hustle? Red flag. 14. You call all the references for a new hire and no one calls you back. Do a double take. 15. New hire tells you they have a competing offer to negotiate their compensation. Pass. They're either a f*ck yes or a no. Now, there are always exceptions... But these at least raise my antennae to question… What am I missing?

#FactFriday Did you know that Canada has the lowest spending on research and development among the #G7, with no increase in the last 20 years? #Canada is falling behind in research and development and it's time we catch up 🕐

Consultants know less than they claim, cost more than they seem to, and prevent companies from developing their own in-house capabilities. When I worked at BCG, for the most part I had no idea wtf I was talking about. archive.is/2023.02.14-085134…

The toxic culture of rejection in computer science sigbed.org/2022/08/22/the-to…

"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 people." More cities in #France install "Méduse" anti-noise radars, which have 4 microphones, camera to automatically ticket vehicles that exceed a certain number of decibels ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-l…

The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives, because these people are the best fakers in the world.

University curriculums are somewhat misleading here. Students want classes on "entrepreneurship," so universities offer them. But you'd be much better off taking a class in operating systems or cryptography instead. Or almost any other subject you were genuinely interested in.

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Breaking: Ottawa hospitals and @Carleton_U drop testing for unvaccinated people. Everyone on campuses will now have to be fully vaccinated #COVID19 #vaccination