Behavioral qualities to think about when hiring, from Talent, by Cowen and Gross.

• Sturdiness – Get something done every day.
• Generativeness – Vitality and energy in one’s ambition, creativity, and ideation
• Insecure Overachievement – Push ambition toward imposter syndrome; “One study of the psychosocial features of elite and super-elite Olympic athletes found they ‘came from families who strongly valued a culture of striving and achieving, while experiencing moderate sibling rivalry.”
• Pessimistic Perfectionism: Don’t sabotage yourself early so that you don’t have face failure
• Happiness/Fun-ness: An infectious, positive, can-do attitude
• Clutteredness: “Their words and writings are cluttered because their minds and thoughts are cluttered too.”
• Vagueness and Precision: What do you need, a salesman or an analyst?
• Precocity: When is the first time to plant a tree?
• Adhesiveness: Be a team player
• The ability to perceive, understand, and climb complex hierarchies. Focus on the most relevant challenges. “Knowing how to perceive and climb the right hierarchies is one of the most stringent but also most universal tests available. It requires emotional self-regulation, perceptiveness, ambition, vision, proper sequencing, and enough order in one’s activities to actually get somewhere.”
• Conceptual Frameworks at One’s Disposal: How good is one at cracking cultural codes – opening up and understanding new and different cultural and intellectual frameworks?
• Know your place in the pecking order. If you’re not Google, what is wrong about the people you are trying to hire? AKA, the Groucho Marx Effect: “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have me as a member.”