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Gold. Once, after a horrible exec hire, my old boss and I got to talking about what we might do differently. The way he put it, and the line I remember, was: “probation is a state of mind.”
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Sure, you might not be able to put an exec hire on probation the way you might with a junior IC hire. But you can mentally put them in a ‘probation’ bucket for 6 months. And then reverse the hire quickly if it doesn’t work out.
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