I was re-reading some passages from the incredible book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins and came across the following passage from Fred Allen of Pitney Bowes. It struck me as an incredible recruiting thought. Far too often we let talent completely overshadow other intangibles that are important to our own, unique team or organization.
"I used to be in the Marines, and the Marines get a lot of credit for building people’s values. But that’s not the way it really works. The Marine Corps recruits people who share the corps’ value, then provides then with the training required to accomplish the organization’s mission. We look at it the same way at Pitney Bowes. We have more people who want to do the right thing than most companies. We don’t just look at experience. We want to know: Who are they? Why are they? We find out who they are by asking then why they made decisions in their life. The answers to these questions give us insight into their core values."