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#512 Alec Broadfoot: When does a CEO need a #2 leader?
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- Apr 8, 2026
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Alec Broadfoot is founder and CEO of VisionSpark and author of Hiring Your Right #2 Leader. We spoke about why most entrepreneurs fail to hire the right number two—and how to fix it using data instead of gut instinct. His turning point came after building a profitable company with great service but disastrous hiring results, where “we were actually firing about 7 out of 10 people.” Everything changed when he adopted structured assessments and flipped those results, proving that hiring isn’t i...