However, other times call for a small group of individuals who quietly start massaging things in a new direction.

Later, when you finally stand up and say “this is our new direction” they reply “that makes a lot of sense ” or “Oh I thought that’s what we were doing anyway”.

“An empty seat is better than a seat filled by the wrong person.”

With that said, you should:

• Hire people who you would be happy reporting to (or working for)

• Hire people who put their hands up for the gritty work

• Hire people who finish when their work is done, not when the clock tells them

• Hire people who say ‘we’ instead of ‘I’

• Hire people who want to move the company forward instead of move within the company

• Hire people who strive to move the company forward, rather than aim to move within the company

• Hire people who are smarter than you

• Hire people who come up with solutions, not problems

• Hire people who are interested in their craft outside of work hours.

• Hire people who don’t write long emails

• Hire people who are positive

• Hire people who set goals

• Hire people who do the right thing, instead of take the easy option

• Hire people who expect a lot from themselves and of their colleagues in turn

• Hire people for strength, not lack of weakness

• Hire people who get shit done and have a bias for action

• Hire people who understand 'why’

• Hire people who understand their worth comes from their output, not their title

Hire people who care.