Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you
Mellody HobsonRead
You can teach someone with basic smarts to be smarter; you can't teach cultural fit or personality. But you also want someone who has a passion to win; someone that is all in.
Interpretation
Knowledge and skills can be taught, but cultural fit and personality are innate traits that can't be changed.
This quote emphasizes the importance of hiring individuals who possess both intelligence and the right personality traits for a team or organization. While skills and knowledge can be developed over time, attributes such as cultural fit and passion for success are essential for team cohesion and productivity. Hence, leaders should prioritize these innate qualities when considering potential team members.
In practice
During a team-building seminar to highlight the importance of hiring practices.
Observe your environment. Invite people into your life that don't look like you or think like you
Black women have a kind of advantage over white women in the workplace. They go in prepared to face some discrimination, so when it happens, they aren't shocked.
I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and Hispanic women, men, etcetera, who say I'm interested in working for your company because they can see someone at the top who looks like them.
The way I go about it is that we should all be inviting people into our lives who don't look like us, speak like us and don't come from where we come from.
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