How to find great talent...

Good stuff from Dan Pink -

From his blog- Interesting interview with author George Anders

"George Anders is a top-shelf business journalist, a veteran of the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and now Bloomberg View. For the last couple of years, he’s tried to answer that question by hanging out with the best talent spotters in the world – the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, a squadron of basketball scouts, the folks at Facebook, and many more."...

 "Everybody should be searching for resilience, and hardly anyone does. Being able to bounce back from adversity is crucial in just about every field I examined. You need resilience to be a great CEO, a great teacher, soldier, investor, etc., etc. But when we hire, we’re taught to regard setbacks — regardless of what came next — as flaws in a candidate. So when we prepare our own resumes, we hide our stumbles. That’s wrong! We should cherish people who have extricated themselves from trouble in the past."

And Pink via a retweet - (what if every company had this philosophy?)
"RT @Sisarina: "We have no vacation policy. The best person to decide whether you should take the day off is you." - @TheMotleyFool #TEDxPQ"