Stop Hiring Your Mirror: Culture Add vs. Culture Fit
Culture fit is one of the most expensive myths in hiring. When companies screen for fit, they tend to screen for sameness — people who think, communicate, and look like the people already in the room. The result is a team that gets along well and runs out of new ideas fast.
Culture add is the alternative. The idea is straightforward: hire for the perspectives, skills, and approaches your team is actually missing, not the ones it already has. In practice, most companies claim to do this and revert to fit the moment the pressure is on.
Kree Govender from Microsoft Canada has spent years working…
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