On this episode of the playbook I have Alex Alonzo, the chief knowledge officer, and Nick Schock, the chief global development officer at SHRM, the Society of Human Resource Management, and you're going to find out why my father was wrong

when he said the best way to punish someone is the wish upon them a lot of employees

and overhead.

These two guys solve the never ending problem,

especially today with COVID.

Join me for all of this and more on the playbook. This is entrepreneurs the playbook for each week I bring

you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their

personal and professional playbook to success

and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

I'm your host, David Melzer.

This is Dave Melcher with Entrepreneurs, the Playbook, and I have the dynamic duo of H. I'm development officer of SHERM and that's the Society of Human Resource Management.

There's nothing more important gentleman in business than people and as an

investor I invest in people as human resource people you absolutely are in the business of

investing in people what's the number one thing that we should look for in the

people that we work with you know the one thing that I always look for is really whether or not they're curious right? In my mind what I want is curiosity and and it comes out in a couple of different ways.

If you really think about what makes somebody curious,

it's both being inquisitive,

but then being able to do something with that.

So you know, as you think about that, I really think about what a people manager can do to kind of cultivate that.

So from whether you're thinking about an entrepreneur or you're thinking about someone who's really just an individual contributor, either way you're looking for that

kind of inquisitive that really stands out.

And building on top of that goes right along with that as flexibility and adaptive in agility, right,

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