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Hire for a person’s unique strengths rather than for their lack of weaknesses, because a team exists to cover what any one person is not.

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  1. Charity Majors

    Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb

    you want to hire people for their unique strengths, not their lack of weaknesses. If they’re strong where you need them to be strong, it’s okay if they aren’t equally superpowered at everything — that’s why we build teams, to supplement and balance each other out.

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