In addition to being willing to take longer, to wait for someone better than you, you also need managers to give up power when it comes to hiring. I should disclose up front that newly hired managers at Google hate this! Managers want to pick their own teams. But even the best-intentioned managers compromise their standards as searches drag on. In most companies, for example, they set very high bars for the quality of administrative assistants they want on the first day of a search, but by day ninety most managers will take anyone who will answer a phone. Even worse, individual managers can be
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