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/ 

Show Links

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

* My interview with Kara Robinson Chamberlain on how she escaped from a kidnapping by a serial killer: https://passionstruck.com/kara-robinson-ch