Stop Handing Your Next Hire a To-Do List

Stop Handing Your Next Hire a To-Do List

September 1, 2026 · 27 min

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Amy Porterfield discusses how to attract and retain top employees by focusing on ownership and leadership practices.

How to Attract A-Players as Employees Every quarter I open the books. My team sees the revenue, the profit, all of it.Most founders assume their people would head for the door if they saw the full picture, and mine treat those numbers like they belong to them. None of what keeps great people costs you a dollar. It comes down to four things: how you bring someone in, how much you let them own, how clearly they see where you're headed, and how you treat them on the way out. I'm walking you through all four, including the ownership shift that stopped me from doing my assistant's job with extra steps and the weekly check-in that catches burnout before it turns into a resignation. Every piece of it sizes down to one contractor and fifteen minutes. The team you'll have in three years is being shaped by how you lead the one person in front of you right now. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Click here to try Manychat Pro free for 30 days with code AMYPORTERFIELD What the Heck is EOS? by Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer You want to hit your first million dollar year. I've watched a lot of women get close and plateau. My Free Training teaches the one framework that took me from half a…

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