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.
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.
Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
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