The Seven-Figure Promotion [58]

Show notes

Nate breaks down why promoting your strongest SE into a first-line seat with no readiness path is an unbudgeted risk, not a reward. Ava pushes back from a 12-person scale-up where a title is the only retention lever she's got.

What Nate and Ava discuss

• Why the untrained first-liner reverts to IC tools -- and turns a 200% performer into 50% output
• How to actually price a failed promotion: blind capacity, lost quota contribution, attrition
• Staged progression with measures before the title, and how to compress it when you can't wait a year

The move

Attach a training budget to every first-line promotion, and don't sign the promotion until the money and the readiness measures sit in the same document. Show the candidate those measures before they say yes.

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