How to Hire a Champion

Chapter Eleven

The Chemistry of Trust: Key Strategies for Hiring Better Managers and Executives

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

—Aristotle

In looking at the leadership qualities and styles that are most important for both executives and managers, four traits seem to be critical.

We will call these traits the four factors of integrity—and by integrity we mean wholeness, or completeness. Understanding that “wholeness” is a critical ingredient of leadership is key. To express it another way, great leaders possess a constellation of powerful traits that are woven and integrated throughout their ...