There’s a lot of talk now about hiring people for attitude rather than skills.
I bet you’ve heard, “Skills can be taught, attitude can’t.”
While this might work for idealists writing feel-good Facebook articles, it is overly simplistic for people running businesses.
For senior roles in an organisation there is no substitute for deep specialist knowledge, to think otherwise is naive.
For frontline roles, skills can be taught.
But without specialist knowledge in your organisation who’s doing the teaching?
Almost everyone I know who has achieved greatness in something, be that business, sports, the arts, they all began their journey to escape something.
When we want something, we are taught to visualise that thing, to focus on that image, until we have it.
Have you ever moved into a new house and seen something that needed fixing and thought “I’ll get on to that soon”?
As humans we have an insatiable desire to explain untoward events so we can get on with solutions.