Great leaders, no matter how good they are, know that real success comes from having the right people on their team. Your employees are a direct reflection of you.
Steve Jobs once said “Assume you’re by yourself in a start-up and you want a partner. You’d take a lot of time finding the partner, right? He would be half of your company. Why should you take any less time finding a third of your company or a fourth of your company or a fifth of your company? When you’re in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10% of the company. So why wouldn’t you take as much time as necessary to find all the A-players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30% of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.”
Another important tip about hiring the right people from Lee Iacocca is “I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.”
Managers, once you get the right team in place, make sure you delegate and impower them to do what you hired them for. Lead them with HorsePower!
Betti
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