Sir Richard Branson On Hiring Disruptive Talents

If you are a business owner or even an human resources manager, would you consider hiring a person who think and act differently and with an identifiable character which can possibly derail your business or department in the process?

Perhaps, majority of you would stick to what seem to be logical and the most common thing to do, which is to reject such possible employee. However, the thoughts of Sir Richard Branson would have to deviate from the common and traditional way of doing things.

The argument of the English businessman and investor, Richard Branson, is that the "new ideas and the passion that these mavericks would bring to a business would far outweigh the fact they may often be difficult to work with." And in the article released by bbcnews with their interview of Sir Branson, the term disruptive talent was introduced to describe suchindividuals. And in the same article, Martyn Sakol, managing partner of OE Cam, also affirmed the idea of Sir Branson as he stated that;

"I would define disruptive talent as individuals who think and act differently, innovate, challenge conventional wisdom, spot trends, see commercial opportunities, and tenaciously find ways to achieve success."

However, the idea of hiring a disruptive talent and immersing him in group needs rigid management supervision, for an employer or manager would want to avoid derailing the team and the project because of some possible disruptions. As emphasized by Sakol he warned that;

"Disruptive talent can derail, you need to make sure employees are properly supported, both when they're working individually, and as part of a team."

The point of these business owners is that you may manage individuals differently, but still maintaining everyone to beworking on a set of common goals, thus achieving team success. The idea may sound new or unorthodox for most traditional managers but for Sir Richard Branson he believes that;

"For that idea to succeed you have to be doing it in a disruptive way, otherwise you're just doing the same as everyone else and you are going to fail."