Hiring for reliability: the goodness layer
Vinay Pasricha says a team's best engineer this year is not the most brilliant one but the most reliable one. Reliability, honesty, kindness and helpfulness are usually called soft skills; at GoodSpace AI, he says, they call them the goodness layer, the most underestimated economic multiplier in a company. In Organizational Frequency he shows how to screen for them deliberately.
Key points
- The most reliable engineer beats the most brilliant one.
- Reliability, honesty, kindness and helpfulness form a "goodness layer".
- He calls it the most underestimated economic multiplier and says it can be screened for deliberately.
It is the most reliable one.
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Transcript
Full transcript · 72 words
Your best engineer this year is not the most brilliant one. It is the most reliable one. Reliability, honesty, kindness, helpfulness, the industry calls those soft skills. At GoodSpace AI, we call them the goodness layer, the most underestimated economic multiplier inside your company. In Organizational Frequency, I show how to screen for them deliberately. Read it, then come to my website and run the Resonance Runtime system built at GoodSpace AI.
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