00:00 Steve Jobs' influence on Apple continues to shine even a decade after his death.
00:04 But one of his most surprising pieces of leadership advice?
00:07 Don't hire bozos.
00:09 As Apple grew, Jobs and the company's other co-founders, including Steve Wozniak,
00:14 decided to hire what they call "professional management," or people who knew how to manage
00:19 others. But it quickly backfired. "It didn't work at all," Jobs said in a mid-1980s interview.
00:25 "Most of them were bozos. They knew how to manage, but they didn't know how to do anything."
00:30 The people who were least expecting to be leaders ended up being the best managers in the long run,
00:34 according to Jobs. That's because they were more likely to have mastered that skill
00:38 rather than only focusing on management techniques.
00:41 He was heavily involved in recruiting at Apple and considered it the most important job for himself.
00:46 He wanted people who were insanely great at what they did, but not necessarily those seasoned
00:51 professionals. He emphasized that teamwork at the top of the company filters down to tremendous
00:56 teamwork throughout the company.
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