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Hiring Tips to Create an Effective Team

Leading at Light Speed is an essential new leadership book by Eric Douglas synthesizing the best business practices into 10 Quantum Leaps that build trust, spark innovation, and create a high-performing organization.

Douglas emphasizes leading through others, and includes in his third chapter, a discussion on Hiring Tips for Getting the Right People on the Bus.

To get the best ingredients, strictness in who hire, promote, and reward is required.. It makes no difference what size organization you have; don’t just settle for a less effective team. Strong leaders create teams to get, in the words of Jim Collins, “the right people on the bus~Strong leaders create teams to get, in the words of Jim Collins, “the right people on the bus.”

Bob Matthews, the founder of Cable Data, one of the world’s largest billing companies, was ahead of his time in thinking about how to find the right ingredients. He used his unique talent for seeing someone’s abilities to move people into new roles that bring out their strengths.

“The majority of people don’t receive training that matches their natural abilities,” he said. “I care more about a person’s natural talents than in their resumes.” He recruited a number of people who were successful in an array of fields – a Yoga instructor, a jewelry maker, a software marketer – and brought them into leadership roles.

In order to avoid routinization, Bob altered people’s roles frequently. Bob realized when people are gaining knowledge, they produce the most effort. When they follow routine effectiveness suffers. Keeping them on their toes, he’d put people in new roles every three years. “I think it is invaluable when people are put into foreign roles,” he said. “I want to continually challenge them to learn and apply their best thinking.”

Bob was committed to placing women in senior management roles. He believed that women were, by their natures, more likely to check their egos at the door and work collaboratively. Many women have attained thriving careers, a testament to Bob’s vision. Several went on to lead Fortune 500 companies.

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