Everyone On the Bus...Beep Beep!

Jim Collins talks about how important it is to get the right people on the bus and in the right seats and then determine where the bus is going. In business this means you have to hire the right people for your organization to do the right job. Then and only then can the bus get to the right destination.

Often times, especially in small businesses that are growing very rapidly, we realize we need to hire people and QUICKLY! We have jobs to do and we can't do them all. So we start hiring team members left and right. Before long we realize that some of the team members we hired were not great choices. Or we might see where the team member is a great person and we love them in the business but not necessarily at the job they are doing.

The trick is to make sure you have the right people on the bus...i.e. the right people who will fit in with your company's culture and core values, who shares your vision, and also seeks to achieve the same level of success.

Then you must make sure when you find the right people you have them in the right job. Putting an introvert in a high pressure commission sales position might not be the best idea or putting a extrovert in a cubicle staring at a computer screen all day might not be a good choice either. If you have someone who is great at numbers but has a tendency to overlook details then perhaps your accounting department is not a good fit there either.

Once you get the right people in the right seats on your bus I am sure not only will the bus get to the destination it needs to but it will also be a much more pleasant ride on the way there.

If you have not read Jim Collins book "Good to Great" I highly recommend it.