Day 2 at the EIA - Team Formation

That game last night was insane! I was in a bar in Antibes called The Blue Lady, with most of my newly formed team, where we saw Simon Baker (from the Mentalist). A yacht boy bought us all shots in celebration of the crazy score. The best part was definitely being there with my team. 

We did a lot of team formation exercises yesterday in attempts to build a team. We created many ideas and pitched them for each other, hoping to create a stellar team. It went back and forth a lot as team members went in and out. 

Finally, my team came together and I couldn't have been more satisfied. Everyone is very smart and all excited to work together and make things happen, including myself. 


Here's to the start of day 3!

Finding Talent - Should you settle?

Finding talent is always difficult, but at what point do you lower your standards and decide that this person will have to do for now? That sounds a bit grim, but it seems to be the reality of the situation. Do you lower your standards or not? It's like my boss and mentor says, hiring is like dating. You have to test each other out first to see if you're the right fit, and if not, you move on. But even in dating, the longer you wait to find that right fit, the lower your standards become.

I believe in people. I want to give everyone a chance and if I could, I would. We have been searching for interns (we say interns, but really just looking for trainable people), and can't seem to find hungry, capable, young talent.

How do you solve this problem? Would you settle?