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Disruptors

RANT: Hire on Attitude not Skill: Utter BS! [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We have all heard it, hire on attitude not skill, skills can be taught and attitude can't. In this episode Rob challenges that notion and calls BS!   KEY TAKEAWAYS People who say that attitude can't be taught aren't teaching attitude. Attitude is culture, passion and energy. It's your responsibility to create this as an employer, you need to cultivate the right environment. Often great talent knows they are great and so they come with a bit of a chip on their shoulder. They may have some arrogance which might rub people up the wrong way but don't you need to have a designer who can go against the grain and a financial advisor who is going to say it how it is? We all have flaws. You can't have a perfect person who doesn't have flaws and it's about embracing these. A team is a collective of individuals and you need variety to make a great workforce.   BEST MOMENTS “I'd rather hire a brilliant coder who is grumpy, obnoxious, needs a crate of red bull every day and needs to be put in a corner away from human beings so they can go and code like a genius" "It's short sighted for people to say hire on attitude and not skills"   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Disruptive Entrepreneur podcast.

0:07.0

What does the word disruptive mean to you?

0:09.0

Means going beyond the ordinary.

0:10.0

Going beyond the status quo.

0:12.0

Not thinking in the conventional way.

0:14.0

Not just sort of following the herd.

0:16.0

Disruptive means taking things up, you know?

0:18.0

Disruptive entrepreneur somebody who sees the problem and embraces the problem with a new way.

0:24.0

Shake up and awakening.

0:25.0

Quality will take care of itself and you'll go from being disruptive but also profitable.

0:29.0

When you use your reservoir of talent, when you love what you do, then you disrupt.

0:33.0

Mix it up, change it up and dominate.

0:35.0

And now your host, eight times best selling author and double world record holder Rob Moore.

0:42.0

Warning rank coming!

0:45.0

Let me clear my throat for this one.

0:48.0

Higher on attitude, they say.

0:51.0

Skills can be taught, they say.

0:54.0

Attitude cannot.

0:56.0

They say come on, what utter nonsense.

1:01.0

Like people who say that attitude can't be taught aren't teaching attitude.

1:07.0

When you hire people, what is attitude?

1:10.0

Attitude is culture.

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