WWE President Nick Khan outlined his approach to hiring and building company culture.
In an recent interview in at CAA World Congress of Sports in Nashville via Sports Business Journal, Nick Khan revealed his shared do’s and don’ts that guide his hiring decisions and approach to WWE’s culture. “No. 1, in our hiring practice, never hire people who do out-of-office replies,” he said. “Not a fan. Message a person back, ‘Hey, I’m out of the office for the rest of the week. Do we need to talk now?’
“No. 2 is, when you do have a vision for something and you’re going after it, if it’s not going well, you have to have people who work with you who can tell you that. Sometimes as you grow in an organization and you get more towards the top, there’s a lot of people who say, ‘It’s great!’ ‘It’s great!’ But if it’s not great, you got to make sure that you have the key people in place who will tell you, ‘I don’t think this is going well.’ And at that moment you got to pivot out of it.”
He also added, “We fail every day, multiple times every day, throughout the day. Don’t mistake that. The clock strikes midnight and resets for a reason. No matter how good the day was, how bad the day was, it’s over. So, the key employees are the ones who wake up the next morning with a fresh look on their face and have a fresh start.”
Nick Khan says WWE thrives as the underdog amid AEW competition
During an interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast, WWE President Nick Khan addressed AEW as a competitor and made it clear that WWE thrives when people underestimate them.
“We’re always the underdog at WWE,” Khan said. “We always feel that people underestimate us, that we’re looked down upon. And we like it that way. Like bet against us. We prefer that and allow us to show you what we can do.”
Khan said, unlike the AEW, they won’t sign and bench talent. Khan said if WWE has signed someone to the company, they want to use them. “That’s something we won’t do,” Nick Khan said. “We don’t sign and bench people. We sign people who we want to use. If another entity signs and benches people now, that’s not something we would do.”
He also commented on the possibility of AEW stars joining WWE, he expressed, “In terms of the other wrestling promotional company, they have a lot of talented wrestlers and we’re happy about that,” Nick Khan said. “When, contractually, they are available to talk to and have conversations with, assume a number of them will come over. Nothing but respect to the father who finances it and owns the Jaguars and all those other things.”
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