Coincidence and Creative Destruction

This entry will be written for submission as a class assignment of Innovation and Business Creation. In the following paragraphs I will generate some ideas over the question of “if I had a company, how would I select the people who can assure me the max productivity and efficiency?

Before I proceed further I would like to provide a brief account about my philosophy, I have a philosophy early on, that anyone can do anything if they’re motivated enough, and I still believe that, but what I’ve learned from my previous experiences is that it’s easier to motivate certain people than others. Having said that, does not mean whoever comes and knocks on my door and the ones that seem the best would be hired!

Well let’s put it this way, first of all if I ever started up a new business, I would like to set off with good friends of mine the ones who are close to me in order to grow rapidly into a company. Rapidly is the key word; I wouldn’t waste my time to recruit employees. Furthermore I would keep and enhance close ties with my recruited friends, besides I wouldn’t lose my weak ties to the students at my home universities. Also I would employ and operate the snowball-effect which Harryson (2006, 49-50) argues in his case study of Anoto Corporation:

'(…) recruiting people who knows where to find the other stars based on previous experiences, such as old co workers and friends. A snowball-effect occurs as these newly recruited stars also bring along their personal contacts. This is how you manage to achieve a rapid recruitment without losing focus on quality.'

Eventually, snowballing led to identification and integration of further complementary brainpower.

Also I strongly believe that it’s very much about personal contacts and networking activities, anytime I may go out on the Internet and see what research group is good in this area and look at the names. If I find a good person in an area of research, the world is not that big, so if I find a good person and talk to him I believe I can get quite a good view of the situation.

Well to be honest, it is very much coincidence! At least close to. In this sense until I found a better process I would do what I am thinking is the best; that is; keeping the aforementioned philosophy in the mind, putting down criteria, and looking at the people who contacts us. Then I may use a recruitment company or ad even.


References
· Harryson, S.J. (2006) Know-Who Based Entrepreneurship: From Knowledge Creation to Business Implementation, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.