The question that Mamaearth's Ghazal Alagh asks herself before hiring an employee: 'I make it a habit...'

Ghazal Alagh, co-founder of Mamaearth, shared a tip for businesses to make their “hiring game top-notch”. In a post on X, she shared a picture of herself surrounded by a few colleagues and revealed the one question that she asks herself before hiring an employee.

“Your company is nothing without your team members. So, your hiring game should be top-notch,” Alagh wrote on Monday. “Here's what helps me: Before hiring someone, I make it a habit to ask myself: ‘What are the 3 areas where this person is better than me?’ This helps me prioritise hiring people I truly value and want to build with for the long term,” she added.

Alagh, who is quite active on X, often shares tips and tricks for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. On Saturday, she also posted some suggestions to help someone become a market leader in their industry. She urged entrepreneurs to stop relying on industry assumptions and take the “First Principles thinking approach” instead.

She wrote about aspects such as challenging assumptions, looking for evidence, considering alternative perspectives, examining consequences and implications and questioning the original questions.