Question: What are you looking for? (In regards to hiring but this applies to all things)
Answer: "The single biggest quality I look for is the ability and desire to learn. Are you a really curious person? If you are, then you learn. If you're not, then you won't learn.
And curiosity opens up so many other windows.
1. You're more inclusive.
2. You question more.
3. You listen.
"In today's world, if you're not curious, you're dead, because every day is so different from yesterday. In an interview, I want to know whether you are willing to exhibit all the qualities to learn, and are you willing to spend the blood, sweat and tears to learn? How important is that for you? Some me some examples of that.
"One thing that comes with curiosity is sheer passion, and that can neutralize many other shortcomings. You make make a lot of mistakes. You may end up going down the wrong paths. You make have to make decisions that are based on not enough information. How are you going to convince people to follow you? If you don't have passion, you're not going to be convinced yourself, and if you don't wear that on your sleeve, how are other people going to be charged up to go in that direction?
"They actually depend on what you're telling them, because they may not also have all the answers. And hard work and persistence have to start with passion, because if you don't love what you do, it's not going to work."
The N Y Sunday Times, Corner Office, Business Section, 7/13/14
