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𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡. Leaders who built their careers on close control tend to hire people they can manage rather than those who will challenge them. Tom Hochuli is CEO and Board Member at Millrock Technology. On Active Ingredients, he shared the hiring philosophy that shaped his path from Army platoon leadership to CEO. When the CEO opportunity came, Tom worried his weak spot was commercial strategy. Running a 550-person site at Lonza had already given him the answer, since his leadership team was what won customers over, not the product. The commercial gap he feared had already been closed by the people he had put in place around him. The carousel previews his three-step hiring philosophy. 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. Would you be comfortable hiring someone who could take your job? #ActiveIngredients #LifeScienceLeadership #ExecutiveHiring