Simple Thoughts for Hiring and Creating a Powerful Team

• Begin with character, intelligence and industry as a starting place

• Pick the cream of professionals for your leaders and partners

• Seek those who know what they don't know

• Test for unstructured problem solving

• Test understanding by asking them to explain in three sentences or less the essence of a complex project that they worked or a personal interest of theirs

• Covet global citizens, not exclusively U.S. thinkers

• Hire diversity, from the arts, engineering, history, science, and other fields and also across schools, not all Ivy League

• Avoid ego, some wear it like clothing

• Seek those who are smarter than you -- hire your boss

• Reward professionals for specific success, not for just being present

• Be always willing to listen and help young professionals

• To multiply; lead, lend and merge ideas with others