Sublime

Livingston: What's the most important part of your culture? Newmark: The culture of trust. The moral compass. Livingston: And you make sure, when you hire someone, that they have one? Newmark: The other people on my team do, yes. Since I've had such bad luck in interviewing—that's because I'm not suited to it—I have no role in the hiring whatsoever

She truly enjoys meeting and talking to people. She asks probing questions that encourage people to reveal themselves. She projects a nonthreatening image that says it’s safe to talk. She seems to have an intuitive sense of how to mine stories that unearth epiphanies into human behavior.