Aug 28, 2017
How do you make a great hire?
Buthman: You know, I had somebody ask me what my leadership
philosophy was at one time, and it boils down to working hard and
being nice. And so, I have a sign in my office that says, "Work
Hard and Be Nice." And it doesn't mean, necessarily, hours in the
day. But I think the two elements are, you got to put forward your
very best effort, your very best business performance, no matter
what projects you're faced with. And it means your best effort in
developing yourself and trying to improve the impact that you have
on an organization in the people around you. So that's when I say
"work hard" I mean bringing your very best effort and being nice is
about doing the right thing.
I have many examples of that it's easy when you're accelerating
someone's career through an organization, but you can be nice and
tell someone that they no longer have a role to play in your
organization. And bring in a perspective that you're doing things
that is in the organization's best interest and always coming at
things with a genuine desire to make an organization or to make
people better and to bring out their best. I think the combination
of those two things are things that I've always tried to live by
and try to live up to over my career.