Q If you were on the recruiting team to find a new
CEO for a company where the board mandate was to focus on embedding innovation into the DNA of the company, what attributes would you describe as being the "must haves?"
Great innovators have some traits in common and it is the recruiter’s responsibility to find the right person for a position who will help in order to flourish innovation within the organization. If I was working as a recruiter then I would have also looked for some characteristics in a person to consider him as an innovator. I would look the ability to think out of the box. A person must be able to think out of the box in order to be innovative and creative a person must be able to think out of the ordinary. Also the person must be consistent as innovation does not happen over a short time always and a person must be committed to the work consistently to see any fruitful results.