Hiring Talent

“Development can help great people be even better–but if I had a dollar to spend, I’d spend 70 cents getting the right person in the door.” — Paul Russell, Director, Leadership and Development, Google

“Leaders don’t flock.  You have to find them one at a time.”  — Ross Perot

“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.” — Robert Half

“If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could …[because] the single biggest constraint on the success of my organization is the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people.” — Jim Collins