Ultimate Guide to Managing Executive Assistants and Delegating Like a Pro — Sam Corcos (4K)

Brought to you by: AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement https://drinkag1.com/tim Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business https://shopify.com/tim Resources from this episode: https://tim.blog/2023/09/20/sam-corcos/ Sam Corcos is the CEO and Co-founder of Levels, an a16z-backed startup that shows you how food affects your health using continuous glucose monitors and other biosensors. Levels: http://levelshealth.com/ Levels on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LevelsHealth [00:00] Intro [00:17] Delegation implementation and common mistakes. [06:37] Recommended reading for delegators, delegatees, and all humans. [09:05] Building a company culture that treats people like adults. [10:54] Tools for performance and communication accountability. [16:35] Why Sam considers Loom the “most important” tool in the kit. [20:20] Friday Forum. [23:34] Acclimating the recording-averse to Loom. [27:05] Organizing Loom recordings for later search and use. [33:18] Common challenges of sourcing and properly utilizing EAs/chiefs of staff. [39:14] Novelty-seeking and board games. [40:19] Vetting, pairing, and onboarding EAs and chiefs of staff. [44:51] News and social media sobriety. [51:57] Why does new employee onboarding take a month at Levels? [57:52] What most delegators wish they’d known as newbs. [1:02:09] Loom security and privacy concerns. [1:05:32] From to-do list to calendar. [1:10:53] How Sam skips the to-do list entirely. [1:14:31] General schedule and repeating items. [1:16:12] Scheduling stress reduction. [1:20:12] Selecting books and hosting themed salon dinners. [1:36:04] Calendly and related social hurdles. [1:37:50] Using email proactively. [1:40:42] The underrated power of hotkeys and shortcuts. [1:44:08] Scheduling spontaneity. [1:48:00] Calendar course correction. [1:49:40] How Sam utilizes multiple EAs. [1:51:37] Improvement growth for intermediate delegators. [1:58:58] The Working with Sam user manual. [2:04:33] Memo culture over meeting culture. [2:12:32] Fighting organizational entropy. [2:14:53] Raised secularly, what does Sam get out of theology? [2:24:02] The perils of postmodernism. [2:27:32] Network theory and relationship management. [2:42:00] The investor-swaying juice cart moment. [2:43:35] Metabolic health and the Levels mission. [2:47:52] Who is Levels hiring right now? [2:49:00] Physical over philosophical minimalism. [2:54:11] Why Sam has a travel-sized copy of the US Constitution. [2:58:16] Parting thoughts. Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow the Tim Ferriss Podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss Blog: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

Tim FerrisshostSam Corcosguest

Sep 20, 20233h 0mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: September 20, 2023
Duration: 3h 0m
Channel: Tim Ferriss
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Brought to you by: AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement https://drinkag1.com/tim Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business https://shopify.com/tim Resources from this episode: https://tim.blog/2023/09/20/sam-corcos/ Sam Corcos is the CEO and Co-founder of Levels, an a16z-backed startup that shows you how food affects your health using continuous glucose monitors and other biosensors. Levels: http://levelshealth.com/ Levels on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LevelsHealth [00:00] Intro [00:17] Delegation implementation and common mistakes. [06:37] Recommended reading for delegators, delegatees, and all humans. [09:05] Building a company culture that treats people like adults. [10:54] Tools for performance and communication accountability. [16:35] Why Sam considers Loom the “most important” tool in the kit. [20:20] Friday Forum. [23:34] Acclimating the recording-averse to Loom. [27:05] Organizing Loom recordings for later search and use. [33:18] Common challenges of sourcing and properly utilizing EAs/chiefs of staff. [39:14] Novelty-seeking and board games. [40:19] Vetting, pairing, and onboarding EAs and chiefs of staff. [44:51] News and social media sobriety. [51:57] Why does new employee onboarding take a month at Levels? [57:52] What most delegators wish they’d known as newbs. [1:02:09] Loom security and privacy concerns. [1:05:32] From to-do list to calendar. [1:10:53] How Sam skips the to-do list entirely. [1:14:31] General schedule and repeating items. [1:16:12] Scheduling stress reduction. [1:20:12] Selecting books and hosting themed salon dinners. [1:36:04] Calendly and related social hurdles. [1:37:50] Using email proactively. [1:40:42] The underrated power of hotkeys and shortcuts. [1:44:08] Scheduling spontaneity. [1:48:00] Calendar course correction. [1:49:40] How Sam utilizes multiple EAs. [1:51:37] Improvement growth for intermediate delegators. [1:58:58] The Working with Sam user manual. [2:04:33] Memo culture over meeting culture. [2:12:32] Fighting organizational entropy. [2:14:53] Raised secularly, what does Sam get out of theology? [2:24:02] The perils of postmodernism. [2:27:32] Network theory and relationship management. [2:42:00] The investor-swaying juice cart moment. [2:43:35] Metabolic health and the Levels mission. [2:47:52] Who is Levels hiring right now? [2:49:00] Physical over philosophical minimalism. [2:54:11] Why Sam has a travel-sized copy of the US Constitution. [2:58:16] Parting thoughts. Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow the Tim Ferriss Podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss Blog: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

SPEAKERS

Tim Ferriss
host
Author and podcaster, host of The Tim Ferriss Show.
Sam Corcos
guest
Entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Levels (metabolic health company).

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Tim Ferriss, featuring Tim Ferriss and Sam Corcos, Ultimate Guide to Managing Executive Assistants and Delegating Like a Pro — Sam Corcos (4K) explores sam Corcos’s systems for delegation, Loom workflows, and adult culture Sam Corcos describes a long-term, systematic approach to delegation that began with hiring an EA before he had clear tasks and improved through deliberate experimentation and feedback loops.

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