Hiring Advice

Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.

What to look for:
1. Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
2. Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move

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High EQ + Persuasion. People who have a clear-headed view of a situation, and the soft skills/influence chops to bend the environment to their will, are especially valuable. It’s an underrated skill.
1. What to look for:

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Find out their wins above replacement. Through the stories they tell, look to see if the end result of the thing they did would have been significantly worse without their involvement. Try to separate their actions from those of their team or the circumstance. This quality should both highlight their talents and their sense of agency and

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