The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Interpretation
Successful hiring focuses on finding individuals who are passionate about making a positive impact.
Marc Benioff's quote emphasizes that the foundation of effective hiring lies in identifying candidates who are driven by a desire to enact change in the world. Such individuals often possess the motivation, vision, and work ethic necessary to contribute significantly to an organization's success and to inspire others in the process.
In practice
In a leadership workshop, I shared the quote to emphasize the importance of vision in team building.
Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.
I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.
I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
The only constant in the technology industry is change.
The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
A star can win any game; a team can win every game.
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