Stop Hiring Only A Players | Craig Wahl on Building a Leadership Team That Scales

The Operating System Show · Oct 6, 2026 · 41m

Craig Wahl coaches CEOs and founders whose companies got bigger, faster than they expected. He runs Njorth, works as a fractional COO for tech companies, and is finishing his first book, The Walk. His core reframe for CEOs: your job isn't to make all the decisions. It's to make sure they get made, by the right people, and that someone is accountable for them. He learned most of it scaling a team fast. He chased A players and found a team of solid B and C players was just as strong. He watched long documented processes go unused and swapped them for simple checklists the team actually ran…