This type of employee helps organizations prosper and grow. Successful business owners know that they must be confident enough to hire and nurture intelligent, self-assured employees. Recognize that . . . Hiring smart people will help you and your organization be more successful. Smart, creative people will challenge and inspire you to be smarter and more creative yourself and will give you new perspective on your business.
Competence beats incompetence.
You'll have more time to do long-range planning if you hire employees who can work independently . Doing more means accomplishing less. If you play the Lone Ranger and insist on meeting every customer and managing every project yourself, employees will feel second-guessed and cut off from you and the business. Other people's ideas, initiatives and accomplishments in no way detract from yours. To build confident employees . . .