You can usually tell
within ten minutes.

Whether you’d be good together. You meet someone, you talk for a while, and you just know.

Hiring throws that away and starts over from a résumé. Bench is built on it instead.

On a bench right now

01They said yes

Rebuilt a forecast nobody trusted, then got the exec team to actually use it

7 yrs · Vancouver · hybrid

Edge

People expect the careful one to be slow to speak. I’m the one who says the number is wrong — I just want to be sure before I do.

Learned

It wasn’t sales. We were booking deferred revenue against the wrong period, and it only showed up because the AR aging never tied to the sub-ledger. I’ve stopped trusting a number I can’t walk back to its source.

That is the whole of what a team lead sees. Not a résumé, not a title, not where they went to school.

Six questions, answered in their own words. The person building the team answers the same six about what they’ve built, so the two can be read against each other.

You’d learn their name only if you both said yes.

Nobody here is looking for a job.

That is the point, and everything else follows from it. The people worth hiring are employed and content, and the thing they will not risk is being seen looking.

Nobody applies: There is nothing to apply to. Teams keep a standing bench of people they'd want, and it exists whether or not a role is open.
You are invisible until you choose not to be: Name the firms that must never see you and they are blocked before anything runs. Pass on a team and they are never told you were shown to them.
Both sides have to say yes: Nobody is introduced on one person's enthusiasm. Most pairs never clear the bar, and you never hear about those.
You hear from us rarely: Only when someone specific wants to meet you. There is no feed, no inbox, and nothing to keep up with.

Getting in

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