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.
Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.
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