Steve Jobs on Hiring
Jobs treats hiring as a core leadership duty: the goal is to find truly gifted people, not settle for B and C players. He says the best people want to work with other A players, and that a strong team can become self-managing, but only if leaders hire people who know how to do the work and can learn from one another.
“The people that are really good want to work with the best people they can find”
“The greatest people are self-managing.”
“You know who the best managers are? They're the great individual contributors who never, ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.”
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