Conventional recruiting produces conventional hires. Exceptional people don't apply through job ads — they have their own companies, their own momentum, and their own reasons to stay put. To collect them, you have to break rules: fly a stranger who scored 99% on your culture test to Bali for five days, reach out four years after a near-hire when the role finally exists, or hire someone before you have a defined seat. Steven Bartlett's thesis is that every transformative hire at his companies required breaking a core rule of recruiting.
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