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The Rare Find:
Every field has its share of high-scoring performers whose shortcomings take a while to perceive. Auditions can uncover those flaws.
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The Rare Find:
It’s not enough to know that a candidate, for a few brief moments, can deliver what looks like a successful performance.
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The Rare Find:
Some paths are built upon durable habits that will lead to many more good results. Others involve flawed choices…
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The Rare Find:
…too many top executives are being picked on the basis of whether they can talk a good game… rather than whether they can actually run the enterprise at hand.
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The Rare Find:
…great entrepreneurship is all about breaking down walls of apathy or disdain.
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The Rare Find:
In almost any field, most prime candidates come from a narrow, time-tested set of backgrounds… Hunting strictly in those familiar zones doesn’t find everybody, however.
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The Rare Find:
…it’s easy to say that [fringe] candidates aren’t worth the time it would take to assess them. Yet… ignoring all of these outsiders can mean squandering access to a vast amount of talent.
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The Rare Find:
Alert organizations find clever ways to widen their net without wrecking the careful checks and balances involved in a conventional hiring system.
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The Rare Find:
Great discoveries happen only if assessors are willing to suspend their skepticism at first, so that underdogs get a chance to show a spark of promise.
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The Rare Find:
Figuring out how to catch those early stirrings of promise is a marvelous, maddening obsession for any organization that wants to win in the talent hunt.
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