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Nov 14, 2023

Barbara Corcoran: I almost rejected my best hire because she was introverted—how she changed my mind

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Barbara Corcoran almost missed out on “the best hire” she ever made — all because the prospective employee seemed too introverted.

“When I started my business [in 1973], I needed people to join my real estate company,” the millionaire investor and real estate entrepreneur said in a recent TikTok video. “But I had little to offer, and good people were really hard to get.”

In walked Esther Kaplan, who would eventually become Corcoran’s business partner and longtime president of The Corcoran Group. But at the time, Kaplan didn’t seem like the right fit for the sales position she’d applied for, Corcoran said.

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