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The Disrupted PodcastAuthor: James Preston, Scott Middleton
Entrepreneur and Chief Disruption Officer Scott Middleton share's his experiences of how he uses disruption to innovate and keep an organization moving forward and growing. Scott shares these weekly stories on The Disrupted Podcast with Scott Middleton. Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Like Me Trap Part 1
Episode 155
Sunday, 11 October, 2026
We hire the people we like. And we like the people who are like us. That’s exactly the problem.In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, host Jamie Preston sits down with Scott Middleton, owner and Chief Disruption Officer of Your Health, to talk about putting the right people in the right seats. Scott explains why Your Health has an unwritten rule against hiring your own direct reports, and Jamie breaks down what happens when a team is built from a single DISC personality type.In this episode:Why leaders should let others hire their direct reports, and what bias that rule protects againstWhat an all-D, all-I, all-S, or all-C team looks like in practice, and why each one stallsWhy your real team is four or five people, not twenty“You’ll never get fired for arguing with me”: building a circle that will call you outHow to read the clues behind someone’s personality, and why a blunt C often gets mistaken for a DThe cost of pigeonholing people by their job titleIf you’re hiring right now or wondering why your team keeps hitting the same wall, start here. Part 2 takes these ideas straight into the care team. www.YourHealth.Org
