Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

If Daniel feels subtly afraid of them, he will pay attention. The twenty-first-century founder is akin to the pirate of the sixteenth century—an outsider overflowing with energy and brazen charisma.

More generally, making such trips will mean you will be caught less unaware when you are assessing and interviewing people from other cultures. Working off these principles, do send your kids to study abroad, or to live for a while in another country, if at all possible and affordable. If nothing else, you are contributing to their long-run success

Regarding the last question, the one about not feeling appreciated: many people cannot hold in their emotions here. In general, be wary of candidates who use a lot of negative words; it is a sign of possible future troubles and lack of cooperativeness in the workplace.

When you raise the aspirations of an individual, in essence you are bending upward the curve of that person’s achievement for the rest of his or her life. There is a powerful multiplier effect of compounding returns that can continue for many decades. Actually, the full net impact can be longer yet, if that individual in turn works to later raise t

When this person disagrees with you, do you think it will be as likely you are wrong as they are wrong?

It can be very instructive to ask, “What questions do you have for me?” or “What questions do you have about us?” or similar variants on this theme. The goal is to get the candidate to voice information about what he or she really cares about, and it also tests how well the candidate knows the job or project under consideration. On top of all that,

If someone is good at identifying, tackling, and climbing hierarchies, it is a sign they know how to allocate their efforts and that they don’t let their insecurities blind themselves to the larger picture. It shows they are willing to take on the most relevant challenges, and if they are not good at those challenges initially, they will find the r

The most brutal of all the meta questions is: “How do you think this interview is going?”

“High agreeableness means a desire to get along with others, to help them, to be sympathetic with them, and to cooperate. An individual low in agreeableness is more likely to be competitive and also contrarian.”