Who do you hire first? Talent or personality? If for the sake of this blog post you think about great personality and great talent as two ends of a continuum, where a 10 in personality means you are hiring someone who is always giving, passionate, dedicated to the cause, but lacks skills in the specific talent you are looking for and a 10 in talent is a person who is a amazing in a specific area you need, but is only looking out for themselves, which would you hire first? Assuming all other things are equal, unless I am hiring someone like a sprinter who runs 100 meters or a novelist who writes entirely alone, I would hire the personality. Why? Because a bad personality can destroy an entire team, can destroy the key asset of passion, while a great personality will have the passion and dedication to find a way to get the job done. Of course, a continuum is too simple a way to look at this, but still a helpful context when you are hiring.
One other aspect of that should factor in to the decision, is that everyone has some expertise, or as Seth Godin says, everyone can be a linchpin.
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