A well-oiled machine: Recruiting and running a great team

Professional and Corporate
Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Brad Liski (co-founder and CEO of eco-friendly laundry brand)

As the co-founder and CEO of Tru Earth, Brad Liski has to make sure the entire operation runs smoothly. This can mean putting together a leadership team that knows how to run everything even better than he can – and putting trust in them. This is a far cry from where finance and stockbroking, which was his original field of interest. Oddly enough, Brad thinks it was him being a bad employee and wanting to set his own destiny which drew him to become an entrepreneur, leading him to co-found Tru Earth, which makes eco-friendly laundry products.

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