> Additionally, someone from outside may have the silver bullet to solve X,Y, or, Z problem that no one else can seem to solve [...]
>* Hint: They don’t.
But they also might. Sort of...
You don't usually hire someone with the expectation that they will come up with a magic bullet solution - Usually you already know the silver bullet and are actually hiring someone who can sledgehammer it in while existing internal teams are reluctant.
Sometimes its easier for an external person to do this, rather than an internal person.
I'm a supply chain consultant and regularly get brought in to implement change where there are often change-reluctant internal teams, which are held back by legitimate reasons why x won't work, even though x needs to be made to work. I say sledgehammer only to mean that sometimes you have to be very steadfast in the fact that the change is happening, and that all the reasons people give you for it not working are problems that you/them need to solve rather than reasons it won't go ahead.
Despite what I said above, personally I think companies just need the right mix of internal and external candidates - too many internal and the company gets too held back in 'the way things are done, and have always been done'. Too many external and there is a total lack of organisational memory and nobody knows how to do anything.
>* Hint: They don’t.
But they also might. Sort of...
You don't usually hire someone with the expectation that they will come up with a magic bullet solution - Usually you already know the silver bullet and are actually hiring someone who can sledgehammer it in while existing internal teams are reluctant.
Sometimes its easier for an external person to do this, rather than an internal person.
I'm a supply chain consultant and regularly get brought in to implement change where there are often change-reluctant internal teams, which are held back by legitimate reasons why x won't work, even though x needs to be made to work. I say sledgehammer only to mean that sometimes you have to be very steadfast in the fact that the change is happening, and that all the reasons people give you for it not working are problems that you/them need to solve rather than reasons it won't go ahead.
Despite what I said above, personally I think companies just need the right mix of internal and external candidates - too many internal and the company gets too held back in 'the way things are done, and have always been done'. Too many external and there is a total lack of organisational memory and nobody knows how to do anything.