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Today I learned about a new hiring concept called “player-coach,” and I realized that I’ve always been using the player-coach standard for hiring. It’s like a role on the field that both participates in the game and provides guidance: in work, a player-coach might need to attend meetings, write code, and offer suggestions to the team. They have both leadership capability to grow while mentoring and technical capability to make important decisions. In the past, large companies liked to have managers only manage people and individual contributors (ICs) only focus on tasks, but a “player-coach” means the leader must continuously get hands-on and produce output - like writing code, fixing bugs, personally launching new features, or conducting user interviews.

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