Jimmy Conner

Mar 5, 2026

Decisions

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Decisions (1)

Ascender Developer Hiring — Network-First Sourcing Strategy

Decided to hire a dedicated AWX developer for Peter's team to offload maintenance from Jimmy Conner, freeing him for strategic architecture, sales engineering, and customer engagement. Hiring strategy: Jimmy sources from AWX network first (leveraging dissatisfaction with project's shift to internal repos), Brianne as fallback. Compensation: culture-forward, candidates may accept $25-50K pay cut for culture/stock options, $100K+ gap is non-starter.

Mar 5

people

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Proactive Talent Pipeline Investment

Invest in building leadership bench and talent relationships before there is an urgent need. Use proven relationships from past experience to create optionality.

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Accountability Follow-Through

When you issue a warning or mandate with stated consequences, you follow through. Warnings are not threats - they are commitments. The credibility of future accountability depends on following through now.

59 occurrences86% success

Three-Lever Talent Management

When pursuing a velocity or performance mandate, simultaneously operate on all three talent levers — upgrade (hire better), retain (protect key people), and exit (remove blockers) — rather than sequentially. This creates compounding momentum: exits free capacity for upgrades, retention preserves institutional knowledge during transitions, and upgrades raise the performance bar that justifies further exits.

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