![]() ![]() So someone with strong values of the business sort could bring lots of energy and intelligence to your firm, but not necessarily enough integrity. ![]() Note that I talk about values, for firms have two sorts of values: business values like innovative and entrepreneurial, and ethical values like trust and integrity. What a recruiter has to establish if whether that person’s values are the sort that will add to or endanger, their firm’s reputation for integrity. Integrity to become a trusted member of our team? For in reality, people rarely enter business life without values of some sort. Is that person intelligent enough for that role and energetic enough to produce the results you need? Do they have sufficient In reality, the question is more about degree. Perhaps Buffett was being a bit too pithy. If you didn’t have energy or intelligence, they wouldn’t be sitting in front of you as a candidate. Yet if you think about it, a candidate is unlikely in reality to be lacking in any one of those qualities. Much better of course to recruit someone with all three qualities. without intelligence, but with energy and integrity, you have someone who people can trust, and who is fast moving, but who won’t be any good at foreseeing or tackling problems.without energy, but with intelligence and integrity, you have a trustworthy person who has good ideas but doesn’t do anything about them.without integrity, but with energy and intelligence, you have someone who is smart and fast-moving, but who you can’t trust.What he’s saying is that if you recruit someone… Before I explore what that danger is, let’s open up his statement a little. There’s much sense in what he’s saying, but there’s a danger in taking it too literally. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. One of his quotes often used when talking about integrity and business is this one: “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. ![]() The insurance chief executive and investor Warren Buffett is famous for quotes that are pithy and often prescient. ![]()
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