The process of hiring is ever-changing. With each new insight into how companies want to be structured, and how their employees want to factor into that equation, comes a shift in how hiring is managed and executed. In order to understand how to best service your own hiring needs, you need to adjust how you think about hiring; Hiring As a Strategy.
CEO & Co-Founder of Y Scouts, Max Hansen has also added Best-Selling author to his list of credits, with the wildly successful release of his book that he authored with Y Scouts Co-Founder, Brian Mohr. Here’s an excerpt from, Hiring on Purpose: How the Y Scouts Method is Revolutionizing the Search for Leaders:
“Before you approach hiring as a strategy, you must set aside your own scientific management theories and begin by understanding who you are as a business, what you stand for as a business, and what you are trying to achieve in the world. Why? Because that mission must align with the leader you wish to hire. When that alignment occurs, it’s a beautiful thing. And such alignment offers a far more certain road to success than scientifically constructed org charts. When the alignment is off, it can and will lead to disaster.”
So … why is this alignment so important to the hiring process, and vital to supporting the vision of a company?
“… a true leader sees him- or herself not as a player, with that word’s implied independence, but as a servant to the values and mission of the company and its clients. Second, a true leader will hire other leaders with that attitude at every level. We like to call good leaders “conscious leaders.” That means they are conscious of their companies’ values and missions, as well as practicing a “conscious capitalism” that includes concern for not just one’s own employees but also the world at large.”
Hansen, Max . Hiring on Purpose: How the Y Scouts Method Is Revolutionizing the Search for Leaders . Lioncrest Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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Attributes: Hansen, Max . Hiring on Purpose: How the Y Scouts Method Is Revolutionizing the Search for Leaders. Lioncrest Publishing.