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One lesson that came through clearly was to hire slowly (and fire quickly).
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Daniel Pink • Just a moment...
People who are successful run their companies well. They have good processes, they make sure their people are accountable, they know how to hire great people, how to evaluate them and give them feedback, and they pay them well.”
Jonathan Rosenberg • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
Of all the ways of improving a professional firm’s success, partner performance counseling is one of the most powerful. Done well, it can help ensure that all professionals are making the most of their talents and capitalizing fully on their potential.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
When hiring, try to surround yourself with people who are good in addition to being good at what they do. Genuine decency-an instinct for fairness and openness and mutual respect-is a rarer commodity in business than it should be, and you should look for it in the people you hire and nurture it in the people who work for you.
Robert Iger • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
