Invent and Wander
by Walter Isaacson and Jeff Bezos
Gregory Hays Translation
From The Book
Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
There are three criteria he instructs managers to consider when they are hiring: Will you admire this person? Will this person raise the average level of effectiveness of the group he or she is entering? Along what dimension might this person be a superstar?
They work in the future. They live in the future. None of the people who report to me should really be focused on the current quarter.