You will often hear the saying that people are your most important asset. Well according to Good to Great, "In a good to great transformation, people are not your most imporatnt asset. The right people are." I guess in our day to day lives, one wouldn't necessarily question that; however, when you think about it, it makes sense. Why waste valuable time training and fixing the work of an unfit employee, when you could just take care of the situation from the beginning?
This chapter was an eye opener for me. They talk about not being a "genius with a thousand helpers"; it's who you pay, not how you pay them; being rigorous, not ruthless; and first who, great companies, and a great life. When I look back on the concepts, I think to myself these are very simple concepts. Why didn't I think of that? Why wouldn't I think that if you have the right people in line, doing the job because they want to do it, then it will get done? I believe because it goes back to being a Level 5 leader, and creating the rigorous culture that is mentioned in Chapter Three. Not so much about being cutthroat but about applying the same exact standards at all times, at all levels.
The main jist of all of this is be a leader who finds teamwork irreplaceable, don't worry about paying your staff a nice compensation package to keep them, worry about finding the right people for the job and paying them nicely to get them in the door, if you must make the hard decisions, make them right away and be consistent about your work, and once you have all of that in place, you won't need to worry about working a ton of hours because your company will be on the success track by having the right people, in the right seats on the right bus.
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