There is no room for the weak – The secret to building a strong team like Steve Jobs

Respecting quality over quantity, Steve Jobs always wanted to create a group of the best employees, with few but high performance. Therefore, even if there are 20% talented people, they will be able to bring 80% of the company's profits. Small but sharp are the things that Jobs likes the most. He believes that investing in small-scale Grade A groups will achieve higher performance than investing in large groups with only medium capacity.

For example, Jobs' Pixar studio, which is also full of A-list groups. A group of only extremely good artists, authors and technical staff is the driving force to be able to push the giant wheel to the poster. before, just such a small group is enough. Intensive investing is the smartest and best investment.

That's why Apple always gathers talented people, enough for the company to have such an illustrious reputation as it is now because Jobs took a lot of time in recruiting and training elite people. When listening to anyone with good ability and ability, Jobs tried everything to attract them to Apple. For example, the situation of Sculley, who officially joined Apple right at the time when the Apple company was going into decline. It was Jobs's clever ability to persuade talent.

At that time, Sculley was the CEO of Pepsico. To be able to bring Sculley to the company, Apple had to offer a small price with extremely attractive incentives. Although Jobs met with Sculley for four months in a row, Sculley kept refusing because he realized there was nothing he could do when Apple was in such a downhill period. Faced with Sculley's hesitation, Jobs loudly asked: "Do you want to continue selling sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want a chance to change the world?"

This statement had a strong impact on Sculley's most sensitive point. After a period of ideological struggle, Sculley decided to leave PepsiCo with excellent conditions to work for Apple with great pressure.

There is no room for the weak – The secret to building a strong team like Steve Jobs

Regarding the gathering of talent to create a "class A group", Jobs once told Fortune magazine in 1998 as follows: "What we need are only four major product systems, if we can successfully building these systems, we can use “class A” to complete each item, not “class B” or “class C”.

It also means, we can complete the task with higher efficiency. Such an organizational structure is simple, practical, clearly assigned, and easy to manage. This is my style – “simplistic and focused”.

Jobs worshiped simplicity and efficiency. Therefore, the conclusion of Apple's organization is extremely simple. One person is in charge of a programming department, one is in charge of software development, one is a designer, sales or global marketing. Because of that, Apple never saw a situation of many leaders. Each employee knows what he or she does, to whom he is subordinate, and to whom he must report his work. Every leader knows who they need to manage and train, motivate and motivate. Because of that, the human resources apparatus has never been easier to manage.

Simplicity and sophistication, focusing on creativity as possible will make the effect as high as possible. Because of the simplicity, but focusing on investing in the essentials will make the combat ability of the A-class group develop to their full potential and bring out their best. Jobs' enthusiasm has made him an admirable leader around the world, and Apple is the ideal workplace that everyone wants to experience. That is thanks to the management and organization of a professional manager.