When Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer interviews job applicants, he likes to ask a couple of his favorite questions.
First: What’s the biggest misperception other people have of you? You can’t respond “unless you’re willing to share the real you,” the restaurateur told organizational psychologist Adam Grant during a March talk at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which was released as an episode on Grant’s “WorkLife” podcast last week.
The question can help build an early level of trust between an interviewer and a candidate, hopefully leading to a strong working relationship between an employee and a boss, Meyer said.
“The only way to answer that question is to say, ‘Well, I’m really this, but the dangest thing is that people actually see me as that,'” said Meyer, who’s also the founder and executive chairman of New York-based restaurant group Union Square Hospitality Group. “It gives me a chance to actually see the person and see how they …