From Good to Great

I just read the book "Good to Great" on the flight from Salt Lake City to Honolulu. I couldn't put it down because I see so much of what I'd like to be as a business leader and because I've often struggled with hiring new employees and wanting to compromise a little. In his book, Jim Collins, talks about how when hiring you must first ask who then what. If you can find the right people you can move them into many roles that they may be able to succeed at but you can't move the wrong people into any seat on the bus. Before reading the book I had just interviewed two guys that I was considering hiring to work for me and I knew they weren't the right fit but thought I could hire either of them and hopefully they'd still work out. While reading about hiring I knew I couldn't hire either of them. Seems simple but when you need to hire it's harder than you can imagine.