Motivation (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

TWO

Select the Right People

Selecting the right people is the starting point of excellence in management. Probably 95 percent of your success as a manager resides in your ability to select the right people in the first place. If you hire the wrong people, then no matter what you do, what techniques you use, or what efforts you put in, it is not going to make very much difference. Almost all of your problems as a manager come from either selecting the wrong people or inheriting the wrong people in your position.

In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins suggests that, essentially, the first job of management is to “get the right people on the bus, get the right people into the right seats on the bus, and then get the wrong people off the bus.”