Sally Thornton is the founder and CEO of Forshay, a firm that focuses on how people can do their best work through executive recruiting and improving the system of work. Sally joins us on this episode to discuss what kind of “criteria” you should actually be looking for when hiring, cognitive bias, the “Ideal Worker” norm, and the importance of “being basic.”
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