It is only when you are in the thick of interviewing people to come and work for you that you get a chance to distill what it actually is that you are looking for..outside of approporiate experience, 'fit' and so on.
The winner for me has always been an enduring sense of curiosity. To want to pick things up and have a look. To want to find how something works or to want to think about the possibilities...these are what I think I really value when it comes down to it, and it is somehting you can't go on a course to get....so it was good to read Steve Rubel @ Micropersuaion talking about what he thought the most essential career skills were.
"So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead."
So it wasn't curiosity that killed the cat after all.


