Familiar story, right? You interview a candidate and suddenly realize: "Our kind of person!". They joke the same way, think in the same categories, brim with ideas. It seems that with such an employee you will move mountains. And you really do move them… for the first couple of months. And then chaos begins.

The Illusion of the Perfect Clone
I myself stepped on this rake again and again. It seemed to me that if I assembled a team of the same creative "sparks" as me, we would fly into space. We generated dozens of brilliant ideas per hour. But when it came to boring implementation, making spreadsheets, and monotonously pushing processes to results — all this energy evaporated somewhere. No one wanted to deal with operations because we all felt cramped and bored in it.

The Comfort Trap
We are simply comfortable with those who are like us. There is no need to argue with them, they understand at a glance. But business is not a hobby club. If you are the engine that starts projects, you don't need another engine. You need wheels, a steering wheel, and reliable brakes. By hiring clones, we double our strengths, but at the same time leave our weaknesses completely exposed.

The Power of "Uncomfortable" People
I had to make an effort and start hiring people with whom I, as an owner, was frankly bored. People of spreadsheets. Those very boring "finishers" who can spend hours digging into details, checking every comma, and bringing things to completion. They don't shower ideas at meetings, but they close those hundreds of small loose ends that keep us creatives up at night.

Stop Looking for Yourself
Exhale. You don't need to look for "your kind" guys if your goal is systematic growth, not fun office hangouts. Find those who are strong where you are frankly weak.

It is this principle of selecting systematic people for creative owners that we have now embedded into the algorithms of my service GetProfi.

Share, have you also caught yourself sympathizing with candidates who are simply similar to you in character?