With the exception of Lazy, I've seen almost all of these at our fund:
I find most of these are pretty easy to fix:
Lack of urgency.
This one is simple, give a deadline for every task assigned.
Good people will hit their targets or let you know well in advance if they won't.
Easily distracted.
Hmmm, I'd say something here but there's that old expression about the kettle calling the pot black:)
Starts but never finishes things.
I'm not sure how this is allowed anywhere, but for us we follow the Peter Thiel principle,
that you have one major task to do and that's what you'll be judged on.
This seems more of a management fail.
Argumentative.
This is where we fail the most.
We try to hire smart people and fortunately/unfortunately smart people have strong opinions on how things should be done.
We've settled on a hybrid of the Microsoft, you own your area for smaller decisions,
and the "disagree and commit" style of decision making for larger decisions.
Slow.
Unfortunately this is a deal breaker for us.
If you can't keep up then you don't make partner at your 3 month review.
Perfectionist.
This just follows from the "Lack of urgency" and the "slow" categories.
You can code your algos and systems as well as you want as long as they work and come in on time:)
I find most of these are pretty easy to fix:
This one is simple, give a deadline for every task assigned.Good people will hit their targets or let you know well in advance if they won't.
Hmmm, I'd say something here but there's that old expression about the kettle calling the pot black:) I'm not sure how this is allowed anywhere, but for us we follow the Peter Thiel principle,that you have one major task to do and that's what you'll be judged on. This seems more of a management fail.
This is where we fail the most.We try to hire smart people and fortunately/unfortunately smart people have strong opinions on how things should be done.
We've settled on a hybrid of the Microsoft, you own your area for smaller decisions, and the "disagree and commit" style of decision making for larger decisions.
Unfortunately this is a deal breaker for us.If you can't keep up then you don't make partner at your 3 month review.
This just follows from the "Lack of urgency" and the "slow" categories.You can code your algos and systems as well as you want as long as they work and come in on time:)