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How to Hire the Employee of the Future

Forget ladder climbers and yes men. Tomorrow's workforce should be made up of people who know how to think outside the bureaucratic box.

Our Management Insights colleague Jim Chrisinger writes that tomorrow's ideal employee will still need many of the qualities we seek now, like intelligence, focus, initiative and optimism. But, he argues, those qualities are not enough. What is? READ MORE

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.