Cultural fit a requirement

I found that Brad Feld makes an excellent point in his post on Cultural fit – http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2012/12/12/why-cultural-fit-trumps-competence/   Starting out we hired a lot of smart people that were great at what they did, they clearly had a high competence.   But we ran into issues on several projects, because they did not want to travel or work after a certain time.  They were awesome at what they did but other people had to pick up the slack for what they did not want to do.   Coming from a large enterprise firm they were not able to adjust to the different...

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