Selecting Good Workers

I just watched an excel­lent lec­ture by Mal­colm Glad­well on the chal­lenges of hir­ing wise­ly

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Very stim­u­lat­ing.

The same thing hap­pens in min­istry at both the cler­gy and the lay lev­el. We over-val­ue artic­u­late extraverts and are dis­mis­sive of those who don’t fit the mold.

But I know sev­er­al out­stand­ing min­is­ters who break every mold you can imag­ine. Every­one who knows lots of min­is­ters does. And yet some­how we don’t inter­nal­ize this real-world feed­back. Like Samuel and David’s rel­a­tives, we mea­sure the wrong things.

Any­way, all that to say that Glad­well’s talk is help­ful at illus­trat­ing the extent to which we hire fool­ish­ly in our cul­ture.

P.S. Extro­vert vs Extravert. Either spelling is accept­able. I used “extravert” because I’ve noticed that’s the spelling most psy­chol­o­gists seem to use.