In Chapter 8 Actions of Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, Lyons talks about "The Bozo Explosion" and how it impacts that kinds of people that end up working at HubSpot. These bozos, in Lyons opinion, have a huge impact on company culture. Please briefly summarize Lyons' assessments from that chapter to demonstrate your understanding of the main points he is making, then, in response to his points, offer some specific recommendations for how to fix hiring problems there in the future. Please make sure to discuss how company culture should factor into hiring decisions there.

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Disrupted : my misadventure in the start-up bubble

Lyons, Daniel, 1960- author.

New York : Hachette Books 2016

  
 

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start... The Bozo Explosion Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a "bozo explosion," by which a company's mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos. As Guy Kawasaki, who worked with Jobs at Apple, puts it: "B players hire C players, so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players." That's the bozo explosion, and that's what I believe has happened at HubSpot in the course of the last seven years. "How weird are you, on a scale from one to ten?" is an actual question that HubSpot's twenty-something managers ask job candidates during interviews, according to reviews posted on Glassdoor, a website for job seekers. Also: "What does your desk look like? What would you put on it?" The thing about bozos is that bozos don't know that they're bozos. Bozos think they're the shit, which makes them really annoying but also incredibly entertaining, depending on your point of view. Shrinks call this the Dunning-Kruger effect, named after two researchers from Cornell University whose studies found that incompetent people fail to recognize their own lack of skill, grossly overestimate their abilities, and are unable to recognize talent in other people who actually are competent. +