On October 6, 2009
3 Tips on Hiring Outside Your Comfort Zone
Do you have the guts to hire someone who disagrees with you? I don’t. Well, let me calibrate that a bit. I wouldn’t hire someone who had a fundamentally different view of the business than I. Yes, I know good leaders need to hear an opposing point of view — I just don’t want to spend a lot of time debating every decision. But no one wants to hire a Mini Me clone, either. So, as an employer, how do you evaluate candidates who are on a different brain wave than you? Harvard Business Publishing’s John Baldoni offers up three great tips on what to look for. Strength of Ideas. “Leaders need alternate views based on facts and data. Contrary…
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