Why you wanted them
Every now and again, maybe quarterly, take your team out of the office, away from the day to day, with laptops closed and phone discipline…
Every time you bring someone new into the team (assuming you’re hiring for talent and smarts and skills that aren’t a commodity) you’ll be welcoming an increased potential for creative destruction – which can feel like invalidation.
New people bring with them their experience and abilities. They have different ways of thinking and novel ways of doing things.
(Isn’t that why you wanted them around?)
Those strengths might challenge decisions you’ve made in the past, assumptions you’ve worked with and compromises you’ve lived with.
Their fresh eyes see things in the rawest light … and they see cracks you’ve failed to spot or wilfully ignored.
None of which is affirming.
None of which affords you the luxury of feeling entirely comfortable.
The choice – knock off their sharp edges until they fit, or morph the organisation to accommodate their insights.
Skippy strategy: When you hire special people, expect change to walk in the door.
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