Concept

Funnel of Doom

The default recruiting approach of casting a wide net, filtering candidates stage by stage, and hiring whoever remains at the bottom, which mathematically converges toward average rather than exceptional talent.

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Funnel of Doom

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  • … So, this remainder hiring is the output of the funnel of doom. And you say when you say that out loud, you're like, that's kind of messed up.

  • … And then you take that that like list of 50 people, those targets, and you relentlessly pursue and you focus your energy on activating those people, not trying to find them out of the funnel of doom. Um, hi you know, large population.

  • … Cuz we just said almost every company's doing this wrong or has company doing funnel of doom. So, why would we mirror or map someone else's process that we feel like like maybe wasn't perfect?