Who
by Geoff Smart, Randy Street
From The Book
Identify which of the five F’s really matter to the candidate: fit, family, freedom, fortune, or fun.
“One of the hardest challenges is to hire people from outside the company. One of the basic failures in the hiring process is this: What is a resume? It is a record of a person’s career with all of the accomplishments embellished and all the failures removed.”
Success in private equity is: (1) buying right, (2) having an A management team, and (3) selling right. Everything else is just conversation.