In Guy Kawasaki’s speech “The Art of the Start” (one of my favour speeches by the way) he mentioned the rule of hiring people – “Hire better than yourself”.
“A player do not hire A player, A player hires A+ players. B player hires C players, C players hires D players, and D player hires E players. So if you start hiring B player, you are going to wake one day and you will be surrounded by Z players” – at around 28:45 of the video
From my working experiences, I realised the importances of hiring A+ players. A+ players don’t just create higher value for you, but they also increase the competition among other players you hire. No body want to be a loser in their jobs. If you see other people are working harder than you and getting promoted, I’m sure it won’t be a good feeling and you will try to work harder to compete. That’s another value I can see from hiring A+ people. In the place I work, there are quite a few people are better than me, and they stimulate me to work harder. Same as other outstanding people in my class. I want to be A++ one day.
So I want to add to Guy’s example: if you hiring A+ people, eventually you going to wake up one day and all your players become A++.