The Best Men For The Job

When Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak began putting together the executive team for Apple Computers, their strategy was to create an atmosphere in which it would be impossible not to succeed. Since they were manufacturing technical products, and Hewlett-Packard was the best manufacturer of technical products. Jobs and Wozniak offered a job to the vice-president of Manufacturing at Hewlett-Packard. When he wasn’t available, they offered a job to his assistant.

They used this method to hire a marketing person, a manufacturing person, and a human resource person. Where many entrepreneurs tend to be possessive and afraid of losing authority, these men’s approach was the exact opposite. They created an atmosphere where success was imminent.