Please welcome our special guest Montreece Smith, a longtime colleague and friend who gave us our first on-ramp into the corporate world. We discuss her new role as SVP Human Resources at an organization that helps train and hire technical talent for companies. Our conversation covers a lot of ground but she shares an insane stat about the growth performance of her company that may provide you with a new perspective.

Please welcome our special guest, Beau Billington, who has a business in the executive talent space. Over the years, he’s worked with a number of high-growth companies and the talent that drives them while also building his own business. In this fascinating episode we discuss what the market and talent is looking for, and what it means to be an entrepreneur these days.

What if there was an app on your phone that linked you directly to the highest-skilled person who delivers the outcome you need? We break it down in this quick episode.

In this quick episode we compare world-class talent to property, plant, and equipment. No business exists without people.

It’s strange to me that professional investors have finally realized that people are important to creating value in businesses. They traditionally have been viewed as a commoditized cost center, which is why HR never had a seat at the C-Suite table. But as incentive alignment becomes more important and owners realize that aligning people’s rewards with the profitable growth of the firm is critical to success, then talent becomes an operational driver of outsized growth. In this short episode we share 3 primary requirements that 10x or 100x talent has for joining a company.

When recurring revenue is the holy grail of any business, it requires the people operating that business to continue executing in order to recognize that revenue. Financial models assume cash flows go into perpetuity but both human beings and machines wear out. We call it burnout. So how do you recognize it, deal with it, and judo it so everyone wins?