Hiring the Best People

Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 10:06 p.m.

b'Patty McCord, Netflix\\u2019s former Chief Talent Officer, sees hiring as constant matchmaking. Building a team of people that gets amazing work done, she says, requires managers to really know what they need, and for HR to actually understand the workings of the business. She says money should not be the reason someone leaves and that we should stop using words like \\u201cpoaching\\u201d and \\u201cfiring.\\u201d McCord is the author of \\u201cHow to Hire,\\u201d in the January\\u2013February 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.'