The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
Interpretation
Successful hiring focuses on finding individuals who are passionate about making a positive impact.
Marc Benioff's quote emphasizes that the foundation of effective hiring lies in identifying candidates who are driven by a desire to enact change in the world. Such individuals often possess the motivation, vision, and work ethic necessary to contribute significantly to an organization's success and to inspire others in the process.
In practice
In a leadership workshop, I shared the quote to emphasize the importance of vision in team building.
Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.
I strongly believe the business of a business is to improve the world.
I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
The only constant in the technology industry is change.
The antidote to inequality is equality. The question is how do you achieve equality? I believe that, for business, which is where I can speak, we have to shift from shareholder maximization to stakeholder maximization.
I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
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