More Thoughts on Hiring

Development can help great people be even better — but if I had a dollar to spend, I’d spend 70 cents getting the right person in the door.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about hiring lately (I can’t help it—we’ve added three fulltime staff and an intern to our team in the last month) and some concepts have risen to the surface:

• For senior positions, hire talent.
• For junior positions, hire potential.
• For every position, don’t hire people you don’t like.

Of course, it must be said, ignoring lists is also extremely important.