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Unique perspectives
Yoann JOYEUX
What design can teach us about recruitment and thinking
4 minutes Posted Aug 4, 2023 at 4:55 am.
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Design people can inspire us in dealing with problems embracing complexity and tapping into multiple resources and humanities.

IDEO is fascinating in the way that they think about people, the way that they think about recruiting. They describe their ideal employee as a T-shaped person. The horizontal stroke of the T means that this is a person that is deeply interested and able to engage fluently in lots and lots of different topics, but the vertical stroke of the T is their expertise, their deep expertise in one area.

A case from Ideo https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/changing-the-way-managers-think-about-generating-new-ideas

I am Yoann Joyeux, leadership coach, entrepreneur, farmer with roots in France and in South Africa.  In this space, I am tracking business trends, performance ideas and sharing them as voice notes. I share them as leads in order to trigger new thoughts or actions for you to grow.

Photo : Andrew Martin



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