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"I'm not looking for the best players, I'm looking for the right ones."
I know this line has the potential to be inflammatory, but I think it's apt. In the telecom industry we often suffer from the knowledge that our ability to recruit is limited because we're not the hottest employers or the sexiest workplaces, and yet we still build communications infrastructure that enables the whole world. We don't need to have "brilliant asshole" envy; what we need to do is build the right temas with the right range and breadth of skillset. What we need is team chemistry, because with that, we will triumph.
"You want to settle old scores? You're on the wrong team. We move forward starting now. Skating, passing, flow, creativity, that is what this team is all about, not old rivalries."
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