Seriously, that guy's a genius.  He spends all of his time thinking about things that have nothing to do with recruiting, and still has these great insights into our business that I rarely hear inside of it.  Oh yeah - he's also built two billion dollar businesses and is working on a third that's a total winner.

From Marc's blog:

I think it was Andy Grove who said that for every goal you put in front of someone, you should also put in place a counter-goal to restrict gaming of the first goal.

So, for example, if you are incenting your recruiters on the number of new employees recruited and hired, you need to also give them a counter-goal (and tie it to their compensation) that measures the quality of the new hires three months in. Otherwise the recruiters are guaranteed to give you what you don't want: a lot of mediocre new hires.

I've been working on a post about Twitter and the ERE Expo this morning, but then I read this and had to share it.  More later.