104 - The Real Reason Scaling CEOs Keep Panic Hiring
Most CEOs get hiring wrong in one of two ways: they wait too long to bring someone on, or they panic and fill the seat with the wrong person the moment the pressure hits. Darren Tompkins, founder of Vader-Rey Companies, has spent years watching that pattern play out across the scaling businesses he works with in Houston's oil and gas, engineering, and construction market, and he has a simple diagnostic for when a CEO is overdue to delegate: watch your own personal time, not a revenue number.
In this conversation, Darren breaks down why support functions like legal, IT, and back office…
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