Are You Smart About Your Hiring?

I’ve learned the hard way that your biggest constraints are almost always one hire away from going away.

Revenue bottleneck? You’re missing a closer.

Delivery issues? You need an operator.

Too much on your plate? You need leverage.

If you think you don’t have the time or budget to recruit, you’re playing the game wrong.

Recruiting isn’t a side quest. It is the game.

Why Founders Are the Best Recruiters

Every top company you admire–Apple, Netflix, SpaceX–was built by founders obsessed with the people problem.

They didn’t outsource hiring. They personally hunted A-players.

They didn’t “delegate recruiting. They made it a founder-level function until the culture could sustain itself.

Because the truth is:
You can’t outsource conviction.
You can’t delegate standards.
And you can’t scale mediocrity.

As founders, we are the chief recruiters until we’ve built a team that recruits like we do. Steve Jobs once famously said, “It seems like all the good people I really want to hire, it seems take me a year to hire them.”

That mindset is the difference between good companies and generational ones. Jobs understood what most founders forget: elite talent doesn’t just show up. It has to be pursued, courted, and won.

If you’re serious about scaling, you have to allocate both time and budget toward recruiting.

Because the best talent isn’t waiting for you; they’re already winning somewhere else.

Your next breakthrough isn’t another system, offer, or playbook. It’s a person, and they’re out there if you’re willing to find them. Let’s chat about how I can help you get there.

The Real Leverage in Your Agency

Your systems, offers, and positioning will only take you so far. The difference between a 7-figure agency and an 8-figure one isn’t just infrastructure, it’s who’s running it.

A single elite hire can unlock exponential leverage:

• A Head of Ops who frees you from the day-to-day.
  

• A Sales Director who turns chaos into predictability.
  

• A Creative Lead who builds client love into every deliverable.

That’s how real scale happens. Not by adding more, but by hiring better.

3 Things You Can Do Today to Implement This:

1. Audit your constraints. Write down every recurring bottleneck in your business, then ask, “Who could own this?”
   

2. Create a scorecard. Define success for that role before you hire. A-players thrive on clarity.
   

3. Block time for recruiting. Even one hour a week spent connecting with talent compounds.

🔍 Ready to Find Your Next Game-Changing Hire?

If you’re stuck in the weeds or can’t seem to break through your current ceiling, let’s diagnose where the people gaps are.

👉 Book your 8F Diagnostic Call — we’ll map your business across 13 core principles and show you exactly which role (or roles) would reveal your next level of growth.

Want us to run a diagnostics on which of the following systems you need the most help with and put together an easy-to-implement action plan to improve them? So you can finally escape agency prison and build your dream agency? Book a demo here!

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