Donnie Berkholz

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For example, during the period when we were transitioning to autonomous teams (more in chapter three), we sought to hire fewer people in coordinator roles while ramping up our search for builders and inventors. That required new and more specific language in the JDs. Until the JDs were revised, we received too many résumés from people whose skills included such things as “coordinated between teams,” and these would be discarded.
Donnie Berkholz
Importance of aligning incentives (hiring, promotion, compensation) with desired outcomes
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