Recruiting Great People

Source :

http://darrenhardy.success.com/2011/05/recruiting-great-people-1-of-3/?utm_source=sos-2011-05-10&utm_medium=email&utm_content=darren-continue&utm_campaign=ezines

Any business or organization is simply a group of human beings that have joined together to accomplish an objective. Whether that objective is to sell a product, win a game or even defeat an enemy and win a war.

The success of the organization is strictly dependent on the quality and caliber of the people in it.

The number one asset of any organization or business and the greatest determining factor of success or failure to the organization are quality of the people involved. That is why your ability to recruit great people is paramount to a business, organization, association, charity, team or any entity that requires more than one person to succeed.

What the über-successful attribute their success to:
As you know, I have had the opportunity to meet, sit down with and spend time with many of today’s most admired super-achievers. When asked what they attribute the success of their business to, invariably, they will say it is the great people they have surrounded themselves with. We all know no one climbs to the top of the mountain alone—it requires a great team. Many of these extraordinary achievers will readily confess that most of their team is smarter, more talented and more skilled than they are… in fact they will tell you that is always their objective.

The CEO of a billion-dollar company told me recently that it is his ardent goal to always “be the dumbest guy in the room.” And quite candidly, he’s not that smart (notice I didn’t use his name). But he is brilliant at recruiting and retaining great people, people much smarter than he is—and he owns the majority of the stock. Sounds pretty darn smart to me!

He said, “If I know more than someone at the table, number one, we are in trouble, number two, I have the wrong people at the table. My job is to get them to the table and keep them at the table. Then it is their job to accomplish the mission.”

The very important key point I am passing on here is this: it is not your intelligence, talent or experience that makes the difference. It comes down to a single skill—your ability to recruit, retain and empower great people around you. Thus the key skill you want to build, develop and hone is your recruiting skill.

In the next couple of posts I will share some of my own street-tested recruiting strategies, as well as bring in a couple of experts on the topic to share their ideas with you. Stay tuned!