Tag: hiring advice
Talent Tip #175: The One That Got Away: What Dating Can Teach Us About Hiring
November 18, 2025
We’ve all had that “one that got away” moment in dating. You meet someone amazing but you hesitate. And next thing you know, they get swept away by someone else.
Hiring isn’t all that different.
One of our clients recently interviewed a development director who was a total catch. She’d led a multimillion-dollar campaign, understood donor cultivation inside and out, and clearly shared their passion for free-market principles. The hiring team was smitten.
Their response after…
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Talent Tip #101: Follow the Golden Rule When Hiring
April 5, 2018
My Mom has given me some great advice over the years.
Follow the Golden Rule. Mom told me to treat others how I would want to be treated. It’s age-old advice that she… Read More
Talent Tip #48: Hiring Advice – Three Hours in a Canoe and the Most Interesting Man in the World
August 15, 2013
Three hours in a canoe. Sounds like a bad first date, a sub-par reality show, or a game risqué teenagers play, right? In fact, it’s none of the above. It is actually a bit of hiring advice a client recently shared with me.
Here’s the very simple counsel: don’t hire anyone you wouldn’t want to spend three hours alone with in a canoe.
It’s pretty solid advice if you think about it. Work is full of difficulties: deadlines, miscommunications, competing…
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