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Talented people are always looking for new challenges, and it’s the CEOs job to keep them hungry. Reversing the bleeding for AYI and scratching out 3 to 5 percent gains, although interesting enough to me, because it meant around $1 million in incremental profits, it wasn’t interesting to talented engineers who sought a career challenge more than fi

It is different if you are from the middle or bottom tiers of your sector. In that case, not everyone will want to work with you, and perhaps most people won’t want to work with you, as they will be hoping for something better, whether realistically or not. If you are in this position, as many of us are, you need to think especially carefully about

“The CEO of Automattic on Holding ‘Auditions’ to Build a Strong Team” from the April 2014 issue of the Harvard Business Review

If you are hiring a writer, look for signs that the person is writing literally every day. If you are hiring an executive, try to discern what they are doing all the time to improve their abilities at networking, decision making, and knowledge of the sectors they work in. In general, how open is a person to absorbing new ideas? Receiving critical f

you care about having a company where employees treat work as play and regard themselves as ultimate customers for the products they produce, then you have to be careful whom you hire, treat them right, and train them to treat other people right. Otherwise, you may come to work one day and find it isn’t a place you want to be anymore.

While intelligence is, of course, a good thing, Marc argues that, all other factors equal, the more important qualities in a hire are drive, self-motivation, curiosity, and ethics.