60-SECOND BOOK BRIEFS

BY SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN

Superbosses

Sydney Finkelstein has identifieD the traits that allow some leaders to spawn more top talent from their companies than all of the other companies in a market combined. Meet the characteristics of the Superbosses.

1 they hire people differently.

they hire people differently. They want people who are unusually

intelligent and incredibly creative, and people who can

apply those two traits across many different domains. They are

not afraid to hire people who might be smarter than them.

2 they motivate their employees.

by setting incredibly difficult goals, and

by making them believe that they

can actually achieve them.

they motivate their employees by setting

incredibly difficult goals, and by

making them believe that they can

actually achieve them.

3 they are uncompromisingly open to new ways of achieving their goals.

and to new ways of doing business. They nurture the skill of challenging the status quo in everybody who works for them.

4 they mentor.

they mentor the people who work for them on a close and intimate basis, truly caring for the development of their people.

5 THEY DELEGATE.

Fifth, because they hire and nurture incredible talent, they are able to delegate

to a level that would make most managers lose a lot

of sleep at night.

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