MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Eight Essential Interview Questions CEOs Swear By

Get beyond job candidates’ pat answers to hiring managers’ standard queries by recasting questions to elicit thoughtful responses.

“If time, money, and talent were no object, what would you do?”

That was the question that Saundra Pelletier, CEO of Evofem Biosciences, shared with me when I asked her how she interviews job candidates — one of the themes that I often explored with chief executives in the weekly “Corner Office” series I created and ran for a decade at The New York Times.

About the Author

Adam Bryant is senior managing director of The ExCo Group, a leadership development and executive coaching firm, and author of The Leap to Leader (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023).

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