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No matter how much experience you have, interviewing potential new hires is hard. Assessing a baseline level of skill or intelligence isn’t that tough, it’s determining the intangible “cultural fit” aspect that is so difficult. After all, how well can you really get to know someone when they’re on their best behavior, and you’re conducting an interview? Subscribe Now: Forbes Entrepreneurs & Small Business Newsletters All the trials and triumphs of building a business – delivered to your inbox. There are, of course, countless strategies and clever questions that you can employ to try and get a feel for the true nature of the person you’re interviewing, but I’ve never had much luck with them. Instead, I’ve learned to look for a single trait that tells me whether or not a person is going to be a good fit: a sense of humor. Humor may seem like a strange thing to look for when hiring, but I’ve found that it is an excellent indicator of a person’s inte

The United States is in the throes of primary season, so Republican and Democratic candidates are still competing fiercely with rivals in their own party. But it won’t be long before the two parties’ standard-bearers are hurling invective at each other. If history is any guide, voters will come to believe that there’s absolutely no common ground between them. Well, here’s an idea that some leaders in both parties have already endorsed: employee ownership. Say “employee ownership” to a friend or relative and you’re likely to get a blank stare. Or else you’ll hear a skeptical laugh. “They tried that with United Airlines, right? Didn’t work.” We’re here to tell you that it does work. We just returned from the National Center for Employee Ownership ’s annual conference, held this year in Minneapolis. Some 1,600 people were at the conference, representing hundreds of companies with employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Many of the companies there were 100% owned by their