There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Act ii. Scene 2.
Sometimes my blog posts are generated by things that happened. Today is not one of those days. I'm thinking--frankly--about how businesses go about hiring employees successfully. And, specifically, that I think I've been unsuccessful as many times as I've been successful.
Don't get me wrong, when I've hired good people, they turn out to be really, really good. But the question is how to do this with every hire.
What I'm looking for I can capture in a sentence: Give me employees who can think! If they can think, everything else seems to work out.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein
Think with me about this. What do you think is effective in hiring? Should we ask Microsoft questions: Why are manhole covers round? How many gas stations are in the continental US?
Or should we give tests? Personality? Aptitude? Technology?
And, yes, we were interviewing today, but that's not what generated this post. At least, I don't think it did.
