Nevermind Efficiency

"Most companies want to hire more people on the A-team but find it extremely difficult for a number of big reasons," Adler says. "The biggest: Companies spend most of their efforts figuring out ways to hire the core team more efficiently. The problem here is that you can't use the same methods to hire the A-team that you use to hire everyone else."

"There's nothing wrong with being efficient when hiring core team members," Adler says, "but being efficient doesn't matter when it comes to hiring the A-team. And when it comes to hiring the A-team it begins by converting skills-infested job descriptions into career opportunities. If you don't do this, nothing else will matter, even with the best of intentions."