INSTANT MBA: Hire For Attitude, Not Skill

Today's advice comes from Alexis Dormandy, founder of the social recommendation sharing startup LoveThis: "What I usually see is you tend to fire people for attitude and hire people for skills. When you’re hiring people, you always end up looking at the CV and see if this person has the skills you need. But the basic point here is that attitude is the most important thing in a business, and that you should hire for attitude, not just fire for it. You’d probably be firing fewer peop...