{"id":552,"date":"2008-07-09T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-do-you-hire-talent\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T05:38:00","slug":"how-do-you-hire-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/how-do-you-hire-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Hire Talent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I found this at one of <A href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/guykawasaki\/statuses\/852606379\" target=_blank>Guy Kawasaki&#8217;s Twitter posts<\/A>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s Malcolm Gladwell speaking at the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/2008\/conference\/conference2008\" target=_blank>New <br \/>Yorker&#8217;s Stories from the Near Future<\/A>&nbsp;conference back in May.&nbsp; His speech revolves around our antiquated approach to hiring talent.&nbsp; You can view&nbsp;the speech <A href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/video\/conference\/2008\/gladwell\" target=_blank>here<\/A>.&nbsp; Mr. Gladwell makes some great points, but I will allow you to glean that on your own.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here are my thoughts on the matter:<\/P><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organizations have spent too much time and money on removing all doubt.&nbsp;\n<li>Organizations don&#8217;t use leadership to &#8220;size&#8221; talent up.\n<li>Organizations don&#8217;t know what system they&#8217;re built on (thank you <A href=\"http:\/\/www.missionmindedmanagement.com\/\" target=_blank>Michelle<\/A>).\n<li>Organizations need to teach and hold managers accountable for evaluating talent.\n<li>Organizations need to decide what value they place on people-<strong>really<\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><P>I know you may be thinking that the above has been said before.&nbsp; And you would be right.&nbsp; Nothing new under the sun as once been said.&nbsp; But here&#8217;s something to consider:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>A friend once asked me, during a time of great struggle\/learning, how I knew if the lessons learned would stick.&nbsp; I told him that <strong>sometimes<\/strong> God has to orchestrate such winds upon our life-tree that our roots go so deep that we never turn back.&nbsp; I&#8217;m living proof of this.&nbsp; Maybe this applies to organizations too.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;re not short on data that tells us to change, but short on character and courage to move forward in change.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this at one of Guy Kawasaki&#8217;s Twitter posts.&nbsp; It&#8217;s Malcolm Gladwell speaking at the New Yorker&#8217;s Stories from the Near Future&nbsp;conference back in May.&nbsp; His speech revolves around our antiquated approach to hiring talent.&nbsp; You can view&nbsp;the speech here.&nbsp; Mr. Gladwell makes some great points, but I will allow you to glean that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,123,6,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-2","category-leadership-development","category-learning","category-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}