Pot Luck – How would you like to go to a pot luck dinner where everyone brought the same thing – like meatloaf? “Oh, have some meatloaf and let me get you some meatloaf to go with that. Would you like dessert? We have meatloaf.” That would be bland and boring. But some of you run your business or department like that. If you are a creative type, you hire only other creative people. If you are analytical, you hire more analytical people. Often you might say you do it because you want people to fit in and not upset the “group dynamics.” But many managers also feel uncomfortable hiring somebody with a different skill set (many times it’s because they will no longer know more than everybody else and that can be threatening). But if everyone in your department is just like you, you are serving meatloaf for dessert. If you hire people like you organize a pot luck dinner – everyone brings something different to the table – you reap more than the rewards of a well-planned meal.