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> Not every “idea person” is a good fit for your small business. In fact, most will be a terrible fit. How can you tell? TFA goes on to list three characterist
by wombatmobile 5y ago
> Not every “idea person” is a good fit for your small business. In fact, most will be a terrible fit. How can you tell?
TFA goes on to list three characteristics of people who are dud team members, and 5 characteristics of good team members, but it doesn't do what it claimed it will - tell you how to identify such a person at the hiring stage.
TFA is an example of what it warns against.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoWell, just don't hire an "idea person", especially not if your company is not gigantic. If you are running a startup, at least one of the founders is "idea person". You don't need another one, especially not as an employee. It just doesn't bring any value to the business. Hire "execution person" to bring existing ideas further. An if "execution person" is not good, it will show, if not during the hiring phase, then soon later.
- wombatmobile 5y agoHow do you distinguish between candidates at the hiring stage? > if not during the hiring phase, then soon later. How soon? A week? A month? A year? Effective interviewing strategies are valuable to organisations because the trial and error approach to recruitment is so costly and disruptive.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoMy comment was that you don’t need to worry about hiring wrong idea person because you should not hire them at all. As for execution person objective criteria exists, and it’s possible to evaluate performance, either at the hiring stage or soon afterwards. Evaluating idea person objectively in a short period of time is way harder.
- wombatmobile 5y agoIf people came with a label that says "Idea Person" or "Execution Person" we could just read their label and do like you say. But what do we do when candidates claim to be both, and there is no label?
- KwisatzHaderack 5y agoJust do what every startup founder does and go by “gut check“. And hope that your instincts are right.
- wombatmobile 5y agoDaniel Kahneman on that subject https://www.businessinsider.com.au/daniel-kahneman-on-hiring-decisions-2013-1 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/daniel-kahneman-on-hiring...