"If you hire people so you can feel superior to them, then you’re a loser!" #scalingupbusiness

30 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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This content was created by Bill Gallagher. This content was uploaded by Bill Gallagher. This is a YouTube video titled 'If you hire people so you can feel superior to them, then you’re a loser!' (#scalingupbusiness). The excerpt is a spoken monologue (created 2024-08-30) offering leadership and hiring advice: the speaker argues that effective leaders should hire people who are better than them in specific functions (sales, operations, finance) and criticizes leaders who hire to feel superior.

If you're a leader who wants to hire people who are not as good as you in that function because you want to look around the room and feel superior to everybody, you're a frickin loser by definition. So, you know, and I think that is the bulk of it. And as a leader, you should look around the room and say, wow, she's better than me in sales, he's better than me in operations, she's better than me in finance, you know, and everybody should be better than you.