•   CHAPTER 2   •

Slow Down, Use a Process, Move Beyond the Specs

The title of this chapter will strike many of you as heretical. Entrepreneurs may be wildly different in terms of their businesses, personalities, and strategies, but most of them like to move quickly, fly by the seat of their pants, and lust after expertise.

But if you apply these traits to recruiting, you will come up short because:

imageIt takes time to find the candidate whose beliefs and personal missions are consistent with those of the company

imageInstinct may help you find people you ...

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