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Hiring By Belief

Is it better to hire people who agree with why you do things instead of what you do?

Kevin Wanke
7 min readFeb 19, 2020

Recently I watched a TED talk by a gentleman named Simon Sinek. Mr. Sinek is the author of a number of popular business tomes including Leaders Eat Last and Start With Why. In the presentation, there is a concept that the best businesses start with a concept of “Why” and achieve greatness when people agree with the beliefs defined in the answer to the why question.

In this talk there was ample discussion in regards to the successes of Apple, the Wright brothers, and also Martin Luther King, Jr. The talk is excellent and presents a very powerful message to any business . You can check it out below.

However, one thought stood out after watching this video:

Sure, we can run companies through belief and achieve great things in the same manner, but can we also hire people through belief and achieve success?

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Kevin Wanke
Kevin Wanke

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