It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies [...] hire people to tell them what to do. We hire people to tell us what to do. We figure we're paying them all this money; their job is to figure out what to do and tell us.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do.

Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.

If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Gut Feel Versus Structure Many leaders, especially those who run smaller organizations, believe that they have the natural skills they need to choose good people without any real process. They look back at their careers and remember the good employees they've hired and give themselves credit for having recognized those people's potential. However, they seem to block out the memories of the unsuccessful hires they've made, or they justify those mistakes based on the hidden behavioral deficiencies in the people they later had to fire. Whatever the case, they persist in the belief that they know a good person when they see one and that they can go about the hiring process without much structure.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.