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Hire for Judgment, Train for Tools

The takeaway

Skills are teachable; judgment under pressure is the rare ingredient.

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Tools change yearly, but the judgment to make good decisions under ambiguity and pressure is hard to teach and harder to find. Hiring for that judgment and training the tooling produces people who hold up when the playbook runs out.

“Tools are learnable. Judgment is the hard part to hire.”

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