Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest

best thing you can do for employees is hire only high performers to work alongside them. It’s a perk far better than foosball or free sushi or even a big signing bonus or the holy grail of stock options. Excellent colleagues, a clear purpose, and well-understood deliverables: that’s the powerful combination.

Whenever I interview a job candidate, their first question is often, “What’s the culture like?” I used to struggle to answer; where do you even start? Tomes have been written on organizational culture. Now, though, I think most of the time people are really asking these questions: How much autonomy will I have? Will I feel included? Will it be safe

Interviews and Hiring Hiring involves all the managerial body parts: heart, soul, nose and gut (but mostly gut). Don’t try to do it alone — two guts are more than twice as good as one. Ask new hires to undertake one project at exactly the level of competence they have already proved, to defer real stretch goals till the next time. Ask for pointers: