Who you don't know...
The bravest thing I heard from a CEO recently was the following:
"We need to hire an unlike mind. I want to be constantly challenged and scared by the hires we make this year. I need to learn. Constantly. We need to be relevant to our clients who are demanding different everyday.
Once they’re here, it isn’t their job to prove their worth to me, it’s my job to create the conditions for them to flourish.
I’m sick of hiring the same people. I’m actually sick of paying a headhunter to introduce me to someone that I worked with 5 years ago. It’s like headhunter tax!"
How can you expect to evolve if you don’t embrace change? I’m not going to quote Einstein here, but… Same people + Same places = same results?
Have things changed from how we look at hiring talent?
It made me think:
It's not what you know.
It's not who you know.
It's who you DON'T know.
That's where the leaps in change, progression and evolution starts to happen. In the Uncertain.
That's what we want, isn't it? To leave this place having moved the needle on a touch?
Totally agree, and in my experience many CEO's recognise this but sadly very few are actually brave enough to stick to it.
Proven Marketing Manager who enables businesses to navigate Step Change Capability in Products, Innovation & Brand Engagement.
5yOllie - that was the sentiment that Google taught in their Digital Marketing course, along with a number of LinkedIn Influencers. Much as I've been a change agent throughout my career with start-ups / joint ventures and business transformations, the reality I see from hiring managers is that they want "safe hires" - and will hold out for them as long as possible. I honestly believe if, so long as the "think different" candidate has the aptitude and was hired all over the UK - we would have GDP growth of 3%. In other words, fresh-thinking, examing EVERYTHING is the healthiest thing for a company in markets that are changing faster then ever, such as Grocery Retail.......
Project Director at VML
5yGreat sentiment, but it doesn’t seem to work like this in reality. Or maybe I am not looking in the right places.
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5yTry Dave Dye too if he's not busy with Thingy.
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5yWho? Sounds amazing.