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Resource-fullness

Hire people who can solve problems, not create more

Jack Dunigan
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 11:17
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Editor’s note: This continues Jack Dunigan’s series about unsung heroes in the workplace, and the 16 traits they all share.

A fellow woodworking business owner has a unique and clever way of qualifying applicants for jobs. He brings them into the shop and offers to pay them for one week. During that week they have one assignment. They can build anything they want in the shop, use the shop’s equipment and supplies, but whatever they build must be planned, started, and completed in one work week.

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This shop owner learns a lot during that week. One quality he is able to monitor is resource-fullness. He can observe, before he hires the person, if he can learn his way around the shop, plan intelligently, use the machinery, complete something on time, produce commercial-grade work, and solve the inevitable problems that arise.

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Submitted by Jeff Dewar on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 10:20

A high-capacity server

Jack, this is a grrreat article! Excellent series. I think you could explain the high-capacity server bit in another way. You placed this under the "inward attitudes" section, but isn't this really more of an innate intelligence issue? Yes, I suppose just having an attitude of "quickness" helps, but you've got to have the brain cells and knowledge to grasp the issue at hand. I also think that some of the best innovators I've known are quick to see the issue, but will continue discussing the issue right down to its roots, and can seem to others that they are just plain dim and don't get it, but what they are really doing is excellent root cause analysis. As you wrote, "Resource-full people catch on quickly, just a word and they get it, and run with it." I suggest this instead: "Resource-full people catch on quickly, just a word and they know there's something to be explored more deeply, and at times that may be a thoughtful analysis." Looking forward to the next article. Jeff
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Submitted by umberto mario tunesi on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 23:01

uncomfortable people

Yes, Mr. Dunigan, I agree with you. But all too often - unfortunately - problem-solving. resourceful people are uncomfortable to the company management establishment: because these people want to solve problems, therefore they want CHANGE. Resistance to change is the real, worst enemy to correction, least of all to improvement: until our much beloved managers will not be brought up to sustain a change approach, first of all, they will always hire problem-creating people.  Why don't you wear a dark-grey suit and a red tie? You're out. Thank you. 

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