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speaker: "Maggie van de Griend"
speakers: ["Maggie van de Griend"]
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articleStem: "hbr-tail-120-corporate-to-pe-ceo"
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sourceTitle: "Making the Leap from Corporate Leader to PE-Backed CEO"
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# Van de Griend on Forward-Looking Hiring

> "In private equity you're hiring for where the business needs to be two years from now, not where it is today."

— [[entity-maggie-van-de-griend|Maggie van de Griend]], managing director for portfolio talent, [[entity-warburg-pincus|Warburg Pincus]]

The forward-looking hiring principle at the heart of [[concept-pe-talent-risk|PE talent risk tolerance]].