Hiring the Best People
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HBR IdeaCast
And so, like hires like hires like hires like, and then pretty soon you not only have everybody who is the same, looks the same, acts the same, thinks the same, but you don’t have controversy, and you don’t have diversity of opinion on the team, and then you don’t get as interesting stuff done, and you don’t look for people who might solve the problem differently than you. SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: You have said at different points, it’s so important for HR to really understand the business that actually people might want to consider hiring someone from the business to run HR as opposed to hiring an HR specialist. SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: One of the challenges, I think, with recruiting is that—so, in a big Silicon Valley, fast-growing type company, you’re hiring a lot of people all the time.