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| Titre | Date | Durée | |
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| Are Extroverts Better at Sales? What the Raptors Looked For Instead | 06 Oct 2026 | 00:04:23 | |
The Raptors scouted Fred VanVleet for winning pedigree, maturity and toughness, and Scottie Barnes mentioned winning a hundred times in his interview. Nobody mentioned "outgoing." In this episode: What the Raptors looked for, and why Kawhi vs. Draymond: opposite personalities, same award What the research says about conscientiousness and ambiverts Sources include Barrick and Mount (1991), Grant (2013), TSN and CBC. Full transcript and references at ashleywesley.com. General information, not legal advice. | |||
| How the Raptors Pick Players: Build a Hiring Process That Tests | 01 Oct 2026 | 00:04:38 | |
The Raptors found Fred VanVleet undrafted and Pascal Siakam at pick 27, then tested both inside the job with the 905. This episode is about building a hiring process where every competency has a test. In this episode: The full chain from strategy to knowledge, skills, abilities and personality How NBA teams test: film, the Combine, interviews and workouts Your version: track record, assessments, structured interviews, work samples and the first 90 days Sources include Sackett et al. (2022), Cleaning the Glass, CBC and RaptorsHQ. Full transcript and references at ashleywesley.com. General information, not legal advice. | |||
| Start With How You Win: Business Strategy Before You Hire | 29 Sep 2026 | 00:04:43 | |
The Raptors built a roster that could switch on every screen, and it changed who they drafted. This episode is about the step owners skip: deciding how you win before you decide who you need. In this episode: The Raptors' switch-everything strategy, and its trade-off The 2018 Kawhi Leonard trade as a strategy call Three value disciplines, and the salesperson each one needs Sources include Treacy and Wiersema (1993) and reporting from CBS Sports, CBC and TSN. Full transcript and references at ashleywesley.com. General information, not legal advice. | |||
| Every Company Has the Same Values. So Why Bother? | 29 Sep 2026 | 00:05:13 | |
Do company values matter? Ashley Wesley answers three objections to hiring for values using Kyrie Irving and USA Basketball. | |||
| Culture Fit Done Right: Define Your Values Before You Hire | 29 Sep 2026 | 00:04:01 | |
Steve Kerr cut the Warriors' values from ten to four, then wrote them on a whiteboard the day his team made NBA history. That's culture you can hire against. A ping pong table isn't. In this episode: Why values come before competencies Schein's three layers of culture, and where "culture fit" usually goes wrong Three steps to define values you can actually interview for Sources include Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman and Johnson (2005) and Schein (2010). Full transcript and references at ashleywesley.com. | |||
| Kawhi's Back: What to Look for When Hiring a Salesperson | 29 Sep 2026 | 00:05:06 | |
Kawhi Leonard is back in Toronto, and he's the perfect way into the question hiring managers skip: what are you actually looking for in a salesperson? In this episode: Why height predicts who makes the NBA, and why the tallest players are often the weaker athletes The GM exercise: breaking one role into traits, behaviour, skill and knowledge Three things to do Monday before you post your next sales job Sources include Hunter, Schmidt and Judiesch (1990) and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's NBA research. Full transcript and references at ashleywesley.com. | |||