Excerpt from a YouTube video ("Hiring the Best: Ethical Business Leadership") in which the speaker stresses transparency and merit-based hiring. The speaker rejects hiring by race or gender mandates, insisting on hiring "the best person for this position" and recommends following the mantra: "Do the right things for the right reasons," as a business-case justification for decisions.
We have to be transparent. We absolutely have to be. And, you know, it wouldn't be the first time that I've had a business owner come to me and say, we must hire someone of this race or we must hire someone of this gender. And I look at them and say, we are going to hire the best person for this position. Make no mistake. As long as I am in charge of this. And they look at me and say, well, and I. I honestly believe that if you do the right things for the right reasons, you're fine. If you follow that mantra in your business. Yes. Do the right things for the right reasons, and at least you're going to have a business case for why you made the decision that you made.
