From the AFR today. Pretty scary thinking from the chairman, imoReading right signs
Marcus Blackmore, the vitamin company pioneer, says employers and boards all too often get things wrong.
Boards worry about the shareholders not the staff, he noted.
PM Scott Morrison (left) with Marcus Blackmore. Picture: Supplied
“The board sits there worrying about shareholders — that’s garbage. Worry about your staff, and the shareholders will be looked after,” Blackmore told the latest Blenheim Partners’ No Limitations podcast.
And that’s not the only thing the companies aren’t doing right.
Blackmore reckons the key to selecting staff is not just through personality tests like the Myers-Briggs test but by also getting an astrology reading on prospective staff.
“Now, I’m not talking about the rubbish you read in women’s magazines and the newspaper,” he clarified.
“But, if you get a really good astrologer and they know the hour you are born — whether its Indian astrology, Chinese astrology, they can really type you.”
Blackmore was giving his views toGreg Robinson, managing partner of the research-led executive search and board advisory firm.
Blackmore got the idea to include the Myers-Briggs test into staff selection from theAndrew Banks-led recruitment company.
Sceptical at first, he was surprised at how well it captured him. “You need to add in the Linda Goodman star signs,” he added.
Blackmore indicated he had been sacked by his father three times.
“My dad was a Gemini, they’re good half the time, and I’m an Aries, so we were bound to have a few clashes along the way.”
