{"id":176013,"date":"2023-11-14T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/barbara-corcoran-i-almost-rejected-my-best-hire-because-she-was-introverted-how-she-changed-my-mind"},"modified":"2023-11-14T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:23:49","slug":"barbara-corcoran-i-almost-rejected-my-best-hire-because-she-was-introverted-how-she-changed-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/barbara-corcoran-i-almost-rejected-my-best-hire-because-she-was-introverted-how-she-changed-my-mind","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Corcoran: I almost rejected my best hire because she was introverted\u2014how she changed my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/barbara-corcoran-i-almost-rejected-my-best-hire-because-she-was-introverted-how-she-changed-my-mind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Corcoran almost missed out on \u201cthe best hire\u201d she ever made \u2014 all because the prospective employee seemed too introverted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started my business [in 1973], I needed people to join my real estate company,\u201d the millionaire investor and real estate entrepreneur said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@barbara.corcoran\/video\/7283585770823093546\" target=\"_blank\">a recent TikTok video<\/a>. \u201cBut I had little to offer, and good people were really hard to get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In walked Esther Kaplan, who would eventually become Corcoran\u2019s business partner and longtime president of The Corcoran Group. But at the time, Kaplan didn\u2019t seem like the right fit for the sales position she\u2019d applied for, Corcoran said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Corcoran almost missed out on \u201cthe best hire\u201d she ever made \u2014 all because the prospective employee seemed too introverted. \u201cWhen I started my business [in 1973], I needed people to join my real estate company,\u201d the millionaire investor and real estate entrepreneur said in a recent TikTok video. \u201cBut I had little to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}