Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Interpretation
Always seek to employ individuals with equal or greater expertise than yourself in their area of work.
This quote emphasizes the importance of hiring individuals who possess a level of knowledge and skill that meets or exceeds that of the employer. By doing so, a leader not only ensures that the team has the right expertise to succeed but also fosters an environment of growth, collaboration, and innovation within the workplace.
In practice
In a business meeting, to emphasize the importance of hiring skilled team members.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.
The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.
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