12 January 2010
Hire the Right People
Posted by Moss under: Hiring and Selection issues .
If you and your partner are up for something big, you won’t succeed on your own. At some point you will need the help of others. As Jim Collins, author of “From Good to Great,” would say: “Get the right people on the bus. Get them in the right seats. Get those who don’t fit off the bus.”
So who do you hire?
Navigating partners hire people based on two basic questions:
- Does the person have the skills and competences to do the job well?
- Does the person have the right personal qualities?
The first is easier to answer, especially if you know what skills and behaviors the job requires. If you can benchmark the job and then compare the candidate’s competences to the job benchmarks, you then stand a better chance of getting the right person on the bus.
Personal qualities may be harder to assess, especially integrity, orientation, personal accountability, self-control, and empathy.
Check out the after-thoughts section at the end of the book to review some resources to help you answer these questions.
Bottom Line
- Hire excellent people.
- Allow them to contribute.
- Reward them well.
- Build your own self-esteem and don’t compete with them.
