The Delicate Politics of Hiring Someone from Another Team

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You have an opening, and you know exactly who you want: that superstar on another team who always seems to get it. But before you make a move, you need to navigate some tricky organizational politics. How do you approach a peer about hiring someone from their team without damaging your relationship? What do you do if they push back? And how do you handle the hiring so it doesn’t look like favoritism?

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