Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals
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Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals
Multi-millionaire investor Peter Thiel begins every interview with companies he’s considering investing in with the same three questions: What’s your secret? What important truth do very few people agree with you on? What do you believe that is both contrarian and correct?
Taylor Pearson • The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. I’ve spent more than a decade studying this, and it turns out to be far less difficult than I expected.
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
They looked for first principles thinkers, so not necessarily your experience, but how do you approach problems, how do you know the right questions to ask? And then create your own framework around that.
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Dropbox also hired for people that were just really humble, collaborative and team oriented. And the combination of those two things, p... See more
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Dropbox also hired for people that were just really humble, collaborative and team oriented. And the combination of those two things, p... See more
Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
The key point here is that the best interviews are not formal interviews at all. We’re sure you can think of other creative ways to take the candidate out of interview mode and into their everyday self. This is important, because the everyday self is what you’ll get if you hire them.