Dan Martell - March 15, 2025


Don’t hire people and then do their job


Episode Stats


Length

22 seconds

Words per minute

299.46524

Word count

112

Sentence count

6


Summary

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Steve Jobs says it's easy to hire people and tell them what to do, but it's hard to hire someone and have them tell you how to do their job. What would you do if you hired someone to do a job and then you did the job for them?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Steve Jobs always says, it's easy to hire people and tell them what to do.
00:00:03.300 It's hard to hire people and have them tell you what to do.
00:00:05.800 What do you mean by that?
00:00:06.680 Most people hire somebody and tell them how to do their job, which is wild.
00:00:09.780 If I hired somebody to do a job and then I do their job for them by telling them how to do it,
00:00:14.280 then did I really get any time back?
00:00:16.000 No.
00:00:16.460 So don't hire people and then do their job.
00:00:18.840 Hire people and tell them what they're going to get done and then step back and let them do the thing.