Anders also recommends searching for the “invisible virtues” such as efficiency, curiosity, self-reliance and — above all — resilience, and then being extremely optimistic about your hires, at least at the outset.
Many recruiters hire out of fear, making safe choices, ruling out reward as well as risk. It is the HR version of the old saw about no one getting fired for hiring IBM.
To find exceptional people, he writes, one should think about what can go right, not dreading what might go wrong.
