How do you feel this interview is going?

How did you prepare for this interview?

What are you most torn about right now in your professional life?

What are the names of your last five managers, and how would they each rate your overall performance on a 1-100?

I think we’re aligned in wanting this to be a good fit, you don’t want us to counsel you out in six months and neither do we. Let’s take the perspective of ourselves in six months and it didn’t work. What’s your best guess of what was going on that made it not work?

How would your spouse or sibling describe you with ten adjectives?

What criteria would you use to hire someone to do this job if you were in my seat?

One of the greatest gifts we have for each other, for our children and spouses, for our teammates, is the positive feedback loop we can put someone into purely by believing in them, by seeing their genius and their dysfunction clearly and then helping them construct conditions for the former to flourish.

One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.