# If you were to use video games as recruiting tool, which of the traditionally valuable skills could you capture and how would you do it?
# If you were to use video games as recruiting tool, which of the traditionally valuable skills could you capture and how would you do it
[[Talent is the most important thing to building great orgs]]
Would [[The things that make “great talent” in high variance industries boils down to the ability to successfully make things happen under a lot of uncertainty]] play in 
[[Videogames could be used as a pipeline to find talent that did not get caught by the traditional system]]


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When ‘talent’ isn’t code for ‘specialized training’ it means the role or industry has not been systematized

The dependence of DARPA on high quality program managers mirrors the obsession with “talent” in other disciplines

Formal process lets people outside the organization trust in the process instead of the people

DARPA Program managers pull control and risk away from both researchers and directors

The ‘framework’ DARPA PMs use to create a program is by modeling the tech council

PARPA needs to be obsessed with PMs

If you want the best people, you can’t be principled about hiring

If you were to use video games as recruiting tool, which of the traditionally valuable skills could you capture and how would you do it?

# Talent is the most important thing to building great orgs
There are two possibilities

### References
- [[Masters in Business with Gregory Zuckerman]] talking about Rennaisance
- Talent bottleneck seems to be the problem for [[Calvin Nguyen]] in getting tech out of lab
Tom Gwynn’s assertion
[[Ilana Weinstein Discusses Hedge Fund Recruitment]]

### Related
- [[When ‘talent’ isn’t code for ‘specialized training’ it means the role or industry has not been systematized]]
- [[Teambuilding is a critical skill]]
- [[The best DARPA program managers are the ones who can look at an entire literature in an area and notice a systemic bias]]


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