1/ Many people ask me, what is my hiring criteria? What do I expect from my team members? How do I retain good talent?
Here lies the answer.
This tweet thread will be useful for CEOs and people who want to work with me.
The medium through which you experience it usually disappears.
Because if it doesn't disappear, then the experience is not good enough.
Let me explain...
It is small, you keep getting notifications, and also it is hard to hold it in your hand all the time.
You are into the movie.
Just you and the movie.
The medium (the theatre) disappears.
You don't need to be reminded of its presence even if it is the medium through which the movie experience is delivered.
You are into the character and the story of the character.
You are totally absorbed.
The "movie" disappears.
It's just you and the story.
You would want to skip forward or make a decision to stop watching the movie. You cannot forget the movie.
The better something is, the more you can forget about it.
In short, the medium that delivers the result should disappear from your conscious attention, letting you flow.
You might enjoy it 80% because 20% of attention is going to your motorcycle that is not doing a good job. And doesn't disappear from your attention.
The bike is so smooth and does its job so well that you can just focus on the ride and nothing else.
You are in the flow of the ride.
Totally absorbed.
Zen. 🧘🏼
If a team member does his/her job so well, then I can forget that I have someone working for me.
I can spend time as a friend, which is fun and healthy.
Because their work is being taken care of by them with 100% dedication, involvement, and at their best capacity.
I am constantly reminded of them and they wouldn't disappear from my conscious attention.
I disappear from conscious attention. As a boss.
They don't need to remember they have a boss.
It will be freedom. As good as being their own boss.
The team members are also in a state of flow because they love what they do and hence they do it in the best way possible.
That they disappear from my conscious attention as an employee and just be a friend to me to hang out with me.
I have a few people like that who I have forgotten about.
If you are running a company yourself, you now know the kind of team you have to build. This is my criteria. And my only criteria. Just one metric. Disappear.
The entire organization will be in a state of flow with the work.
And somehow magically it will all fit perfectly together.
And no one else would understand the magic
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1/“What would need to be true for you to….X”
Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?
A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:
2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to
- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.
Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?
A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:
Next level tactic when closing a sale, candidate, or investment:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) February 27, 2018
Ask: \u201cWhat needs to be true for you to be all in?\u201d
You'll usually get an explicit answer that you might not get otherwise. It also holds them accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to
- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.
