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b'Atta Tarki is the CEO of ECA Partners, where he leads the Private Equity and Venture Capital practice that supports high growth companies with filling C-level positions. His primary focus is on CEO, COO, President, CFO, and Chief Strategy Officer roles. He regularly contributes to Harvard Business Review and Forbes and has just released a new book, Evidence Based Recruiting: How to Build a Company of Star Performers through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- Ask clarifying questions. Especially in interviewing candidates, be sure you understand what they meant.\\n- In preparation for a clarifying question, asking a softening statement like, \\u201cI want to make sure I understood you correctly,\\u201d \\u201cI want to make sure I\\u2019m not misrepresenting what you\\u2019re saying,\\u201d or \\u201ccould we cover that again?\\u201d\\n- There are two types of clarifying questions: \\u201cwhat\\u201d questions (e.g. \\u201ccan you describe that for me again?\\u201d) and \\u201cwhy\\u201d questions (e.g. \\u201cwhat led you to make that decision?\\u201d \\u201cWhy did you feel so strongly about that?\\u201d)\\n- One question to ask when hiring is \\u201cwhat does good look like in this role?\\u201d This helps you to know what to expect after a year of someone filling that position.\\n- Have a structured interview process\\u2014start with the question, \\u201cWhat does good look like?\\u201d then define the skills you want and the methods you\\u2019ll use to evaluate those skills in the interview process.\\n- One common pitfall is trying to predict the quality of a candidate without using data. It can be too easy to value the anecdotal evidence and ignore the hard data.\\n- When it comes to a multiple interview process, hold you own opinions to yourself during the process.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Hire well, manage little.\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Kind, impactful, and a visionary.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What could I have done better?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman\\n - If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Ask people for feedback on what you could have done better in various scenarios.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d \\u201cWhy not?\\u201d because I\\u2019m always finding ways how things can work rather than how or why they can\\u2019t.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://www.eca-partners.com/\\n\\nContact:\\natarki@eca-partners.com\\n\\nFind Atta and ECA Partners on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/AttaTarki (@AttaTarki)\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/ECA_Partners (@ECA_Partners)\\nLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/attatarki/ ( in/AttaTarki)'