Steve Jobs' secret to success
Good morning!
Jobs’ point is so powerful because business is all about people: their soft skill, character, and future potential. Your people are the Human Operating System of your business. Everything else derives from that. Your people’s potential determines your business potential. So make it your goal to get your business the very best people. You can start achieving this goal right now.
Get serious about getting the best talent.
Harvard on How Recruitment Must Change
TLDR Recruiting is broken. Businesses must screen for social skills. Employers screen and select for experience and hard skills, totally overlooking the most critical dimension of applicants’ talent proposition: their social skills. This produces bad outcomes: selecting wrong hires, overlooking high value ones.
Mediocre companies vs Genius companies
Which one is yours? Which one are you building? How far will your strategy get you? Arthur Conan Doyle gave us this powerful insight: Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. Mediocre companies tend to stay this way.
Smart recruiting (free advice)
Hiring the wrong people costs the business a lot of time and money. Overlooking top people costs the business a lot of time and money. Recruiting at most companies is loss-making, producing net negative results: (1) it brings in the wrong people, (2) rejects the best people, and (3) costs a fortune.