Divas or Just Elite?

High performers are hard to manage. But that's only if you're being the wrong type of leader. Steve Jobs famously loves hiring divas. Why? They know what they're doing. They don't want you in the way they want to perform. They don't respect bad leaders. They'll ignore things that won't work or waste time. So if you want to kill a high performer's performance or make them leave, micromanage them, stand over their shoulders, make them do busy work. These people refuse to work with losers. They think mediocrity is a cancer. And it is. They know what they're worth. So if you're a bad leader, if you're trying to steal the spotlight, if you want to do the things that way be because it's always been done like that, you'll hate high performers. But for the real players, they aren't hard. They're hard charging. And no bigger gift than getting a relentlessly stubborn winner who just wants you to pay them well and move out of the way. High performers, you tell me, do you agree.