Dave Mortensen

You look at the four grid and you want everyone in the upper right, right?

You want everyone in the upper right.

In your upper right or upper left, however you want to look at it, one of the things that we look are high talent, high culture people, right?

The biggest mistake most organizations do is they bring in high talent that don't match your culture.

That is the biggest mistake you can make because you know what high talent, low culture is in an organization?

Cancer.

Because they're so highly talented, you know that talent, you see that talent, but they don't fit within your ethos of who you are.

And the one thing that Chuck and I have always known, and we literally have documented through

is what we look for in people things like for us we need people who are competitive right we want people who are highly competitive we want people who are highly passionate passionate about what they do i know if i'm not passionate about it no matter how great of an idea it is i'm probably not going to execute it that well people who are um

Self-aware, especially in leadership, self-awareness.

You've heard this many times, but there are so many people that are.

So I can tell you every gap I have and probably even more.

And when and I'm interested to learn more about those gaps.

So having people understand their gaps.

in life are very very important if they're constantly trying to mask them they're not improving if you're spending more time trying to hide your weaknesses or hide anything well guess what then you're gonna have a lot of gaps um selfless

We need people who are selfless.

If you are going to build a large organization, you can't have I people in the room.

And Chuck and I have zero tolerance.

We don't like titles, right?

I'm not a big title guy, and I don't like I people in the room.