Click Your Fortune #2: Top interview question - Adital Ela

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Click Your Fortune is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style series that literally feeds questions from students to knowledgeable experts around the world. This intro video explains it all: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/click-your-fortune-episode-2

This episode features the professionals listed below answering dozens of questions submitted by students from all over the world. Got a burning question? A hero you'd like to see interviewed? A career you would like to see explored? Suggest and vote up ideas for future click your fortune videos here: https://community.ed.ted.com/teded/topics/suggest_questions_careers_and_people_for_the_next_click_your_fortune_episode

Adital Ela: Sustainability Designer
Sandra Aamodt: Neuroscientist; Author
John Werner: Leadership Team, Citizen Schools; Research Scientist, MIT
Alessandro Centrone: Vice President of Sales & Distribution, Steelcase Inc.

What's one interview question you ask every prospective employee?

I did employ quite a lot of people in my life

in various positions.

And at the moment,

at this point in time

that I have my own business

and I'm looking for people to collaborate,

what I really try to sense

is what are their deepest motivations

because if their deepest motivations

align with my deepest motivations,

everything will work.

But no matter how inspiring,

you know, impressive they are,

all the toolbox in the world

cannot replace the right motivation,

and this is actually what I'm looking for.

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