How to Hire the Best People

Why you should hire the best: In almost every category the best is way beyond good. You’ll get 10 times the results from the best people than you will from really good people. It will be more fun to work with a team like that. And they won’t cost you 10 times as much.
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Increased Wine Sales 1,200% (Twelve fold) in 2 years by Blogging

My natural inclination is to believe the facts but disbelieve the story. That is, I usually think there are explanations (perhaps luck, perhaps existing trends) that people don’t give enough credit to. Instead they tend to assume that everything good that happened was caused by something that they did.
Even with that caveat, Hugh MacLeod’s explanation […]

Plumbing vs Philosophy

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither it’s pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Garner, Forbes “Thought” page Aug 1, 1977 from The Official Rules by Paul […]