BRX Pro Tip: Hire Less Managers and More Doers
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips, Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I’d like to chat a little bit about recruiting and hiring, and how you should staff your operation for the best results going forward.
Lee Kantor: Well, I think if you’re in the startup phase or in your growth phase, I think it’s super important to be hiring more doers and less managers. I think it’s a kind of a gut feeling is I better need more managers because I have a lot of doers here. But I think when you’re starting out, the best move to make is get more and more doers there.
Lee Kantor: If you want your business to move faster and get real results, you have to have more doers doing actual work, not managing people. Doers are the people who are the ones that are going to get the work done. They’re rolling up their sleeves. They’re hands-on. They’re talking to clients. They’re doing the work. They’re driving the projects forward.
Lee Kantor: I think Steve Jobs said it, a mistake that he made early on with Apple was he hired a bunch of professional managers and MBAs who came in there that might have known how to manage, but they didn’t really know how to do anything themselves, so they weren’t really bringing any practical knowledge or skills to the party. They were just kind of being able to kind of manage projects in general.
Lee Kantor: So, starting out early on, you want to have more doers doing actual practical things, solving actual real problems, and having a bias for action. So, when you’re hiring, look for candidates who can demonstrate results, they demonstrate initiative, and they have a willingness to learn by actually doing. Cultivate that kind of a culture that celebrates execution and rewards those who are the ones who get things done, and your business will thank you for that.
