Do you agree that an employer should hire employees who are smarter than him?

[Crypt0Gore]

Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

Hasn't this become a common fact? Rich people hire smart people. And in fact there was no significant impact even though various thefts of business ideas occurred by employees. What smart people can't do is experience doing business, smart people only work on orders, they don't feel when the business fails and how to develop alternative ideas.

I wonder why Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba said that hiring lazy people is better because they find solution to problems the easiest ways, he claimed lazy people are better than hardworking people, meaning hardworking people goes the hardest way and lazy people goes the easiest way.

Is this a lame idea from Jack Ma?

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[Pandu Geddon]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

I think a businessman will indeed be happy when he has smart employees. but I think being smart is not enough, they also have to be kind and honest. This is to balance the intelligence possessed by employees. because those who are smart sometimes use their intelligence to do something wrong. as you might expect.
a good businessman, actually will not bind his employees for a long time. I once listened to a company leader scolding his employees who had worked for 10 years at his company. he says don't take long, you are here 3-5 years. take the knowledge and create your own business. I don't want to see you old in my company.
Companies will grow well when their leaders and employees have the same mission.

[livingfree]

insecure people would not do that - they would like to have people who will be under their command
but visionary people are okie with hiring smart people them than them

Well, insecure people or employers wouldn't find success if they're going to let themselves get into politics just as the way they think. But if they're smart enough, they wouldn't think about it and ego isn't going to be a matter to them.

What they'll mostly think is that, "this smart person will make money lots of people". Simple as that.

there is a difference between hard work and the smart work - the smart worker are more efficient and bring so much value to the company but then most of them are arrogant too = they would leave the job at any moment to better himself

That's pride whenever someone thinks about leaving the job any time they want because no one is better than them. I think many employers are giving the importance about attitude and next is intelligence.

[Renampun]

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Life is not so linear. There isn't such thing as a smart number and people are like in a line over that.

People have different qualities and know about different subjects. Someone may be very smart in coding but an idiot when talking about finances or administration (like Sam from ftx) Nobody can be smart in everything.

So, a boss should always hire people who are smarter than him in various area where he is not or just doesn't have time

I remember that I don't have good skills for coding and speaking (but my ex-boss used to be good at both of these things) but I'm pretty good at finance because I like that and I'm also a graduate in accounting.
a boss only needs to maintain a balance (financial, employee, and client comfort) of his/her company, for other matters he needs experts from his/her employees because a boss can't possibly take care of everything and is also not smart in everything, it needs balance.

[isaac_clarke22]

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Like others mentioned, it would depend on what type of business. We can't just sort of put it in a single agreement on that kind of style of working in any industry.
The obvious intention would be that the potential candidate would have a great contribution to the company especially if we are talking about tech industries.  In my experience as a software dev, because there are sooooo many ways to implement or hard code things, you might overlook the security issues from your code since there are some people that have the mindset of "if it works, it works", but then one day their site would be attacked by hackers through various methods (XSS attack, SQL injection, etc.)

An employer would obviously hire that potential candidate knowing that s/he can contribute to mitigate or prevent the possible damages that could happen to their company.

[Fatunad]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

I think a businessman will indeed be happy when he has smart employees. but I think being smart is not enough, they also have to be kind and honest. This is to balance the intelligence possessed by employees. because those who are smart sometimes use their intelligence to do something wrong. as you might expect.
a good businessman, actually will not bind his employees for a long time. I once listened to a company leader scolding his employees who had worked for 10 years at his company. he says don't take long, you are here 3-5 years. take the knowledge and create your own business. I don't want to see you old in my company.
Companies will grow well when their leaders and employees have the same mission.

Yes, being smart would be totally useless if an employee isnt kind and honest which means that there are really factors which you would really be needing up to form a good team.
You cant just rely on being smart alone and the fact these people could really make out decisions which might really opposing into yours or something that loves to debate on
which is something you dont like as a boss.Its not really that bad to have this kind of criteria or preference as an owner.You do have the full rights on whose you gonna
accept on the company but requiring such kind of quality doesnt always end up on a better choice.

[Frankolala]

Hiring smart employees that are smarter than you is the best way for you to be a successful businessman because they will  come up with new ideas and motivation that will move the company to a great height. Imagine you employed people that you are smarter than and only you knows so much it will be a big burden on you since you need to be there at all time to make sure everything is moving smooth.

If you employ the smarter ones they will do all your stuffs for you while you rest or travel to wherever you want yours is just to keep in touch. Everybody has his own gift and skill and getting a professional in that field of work is the best,you see most employers will call their employees to tell them ideas on making the company progressive and any of these employees that comes up with a good idea that helped the company to make good profit,that employee will be promoted.

[Die_empty]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

It is important to meditate on or review most information you get from the internet because some of them might not be applicable to your environment or situation. For me everybody have their area of strength and weakness. A smart employer or CEO would always employ individuals that can help cover up their weaknesses and compliment their area of strength.

I don't think there should be any form of fear that your employee would steal your ideas because ideas should be patented or registered before it would be unveiled to others. And only trusted employees should have access to important information. Everybody is free to start his or her own business because most competitors are always former employees. But you must ensure your business continue to offer quality services to customers at all times. If you satisfy your clients, you don't need to worry about competitors.  

[Fortify]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

A good business owner will surround themselves with intelligent and creative people because it will help drive their business forward. However, they should always be aware of their own weaknesses as well and how they can potentially be abused by such people. They should also fairly compensate their staff, as this will help to breed a constructive work environment where the riches of the company are adequately shared between more than just a handful of people at the top. This sort of staffing will help to attract other similar talent and can propel even mediocre businesses forward by eliminating waste or being much more productive with the resources that are available.

[Apocollapse]

Anyone can start a same business and create better than the company that they're currently work, but does you can get a client after you start to create the same business? Nope, this is why reputation and existence is really important. It's not easy to attract old clients that already have their own favorite business, since they're already good and doesn't want to look for the other business. If you never did open a business, you wouldn't know this and that's why you're creating this thread.

[kro55]

Don't just hire a smart employee, hire an employee who can be productive and benefit you, that means smart people do not mean they will be good at all jobs, each person has a certain strength. So your job is to find those people and bring them together to work for you.

In addition to the skill criteria, you should also pay attention to the employee's personality. If the employee is very intelligent but has a dishonest personality, or is arrogant, then the employee should not be hired. With those types of people, you will spend more time managing them than they will help you grow your business.

[EarnOnVictor]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

The businessman is very smart, you cannot hire a nonentity to do your work for you, you need people that are smart and brilliant. Most of the thriving countries of today are not successful because of the CEO and board of directors, such hierarchies only have the title and money to run the company. Successful companies are mostly so because of common employees in the right department of the company. What the businessman needs is their brains, and they would be paid for that.

As for the stealing of the company's money, you should know that most of these brilliant employees would be limited to some things. They will for example not be in the finance department where money is being received and spent.

[lovesmayfamilis]

There are two categories of leaders. Some are afraid to hire smart employees because, firstly, there is an opinion that experienced employees have a habit of always criticizing the authorities and advising them on how to do better. Hence, some businessmen, in order to look smarter, prefer to hire inexperienced employees. Furthermore, their wages fall far below those of skilled workers.
On the contrary, the second category prefers to hire experienced workers, giving them all the rights to implement their ideas. There is a good expression that when we see opportunities for growth, the poor person thinks, "How can I achieve them?" A rich man thinks about: "With the help of whom will I do this?"

I wonder why Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba said that hiring lazy people is better because they find solution to problems the easiest ways, he claimed lazy people are better than hardworking people, meaning hardworking people goes the hardest way and lazy people goes the easiest way.

Is this a lame idea from Jack Ma?

Are you sure Jack Ma said that?
Is my search talking about a completely different person? And that's Bill Gates.

Bill Gates thinks you should hire lazy people. No, seriously. He famously said, "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/bill-gates-says-lazy-people-make-the-best-employees/376746

[Mauser]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

Not really, on my opinion it's more important to have people who work well together than a genius. Very intelligent people usually come with a big ego and they know how intelligent they are. So you are going to have to pay them a lot of more money. This depends of course on the job itself, for some positions a specialist required and then it makes sense to get a very smart person. If I had to choose o would pick a well centered, easy going and friendly worker over a difficult smart person. Another factor is that if you only hire people that are smarter than you, then what are you bringing to the table? Maybe the employees realise that they are doing all the work and could cut you out. And being smart and expert is one thing, having people skills and emotional intelligence is something completely different.

[Marvell1]

There are two categories of leaders. Some are afraid to hire smart employees because, firstly, there is an opinion that experienced employees have a habit of always criticizing the authorities and advising them on how to do better. Hence, some businessmen, in order to look smarter, prefer to hire inexperienced employees. Furthermore, their wages fall far below those of skilled workers.
On the contrary, the second category prefers to hire experienced workers, giving them all the rights to implement their ideas. There is a good expression that when we see opportunities for growth, the poor person thinks, "How can I achieve them?" A rich man thinks about: "With the help of whom will I do this?"

Hiring inexperienced staff will save you money as you say, but on the contrary, it will be very hard and take a lot of time to train everything for them. And when they're skilled enough, there's no guarantee you can keep them working for you. That's why today companies want to hire people with years of experience or more.
Hiring smart and experienced employees will save business owners a lot of things and will give business owners more time to deal with other business problems.

[Majestic-milf]

The aim of every business is to be established, make profit, and expand. It's not bad to employ someone who is smarter than you in that area as he tends to fulfill one of your goals of establishing: which is growth.

 Some businesses experience stagnancy as a result of some insecurities and doubts of the employer because to them, a smart person could usurp the company and craftily edge them out of ownership.

[noorman0]

In response to the title, of course
But it needs to be seen from various things. Employers do not mean stupid at all, on the contrary there are various structures and parts of the company that require specific expertise, even say at the SME level. In this case one company cannot be run by one person alone, so the theft of ideas is not the main concern of an employer.

[BigBos]

I was listening to a YouTube video by a famous business man and he was saying that he prefers to hire employees who are smarter than him. Do you agree with this style of working? What are the possible intentions behind doing this? Isn't their fear that these smart employees can steal ideas from office or get client details and then start their own companies? What is your view regarding this?

Of course, a boss has to hire smarter people so they can help develop their business with input in every work evaluation. You could say intelligence here is a person who is clever in his fields such as marketing, financial manager, production manager, and others. Just like in science management you have to keep your members who are smart in their field so that it goes well.

Stolen business idea? not infrequently every company is big or small, in my opinion it also depends on the contract signed before he was fired or resigned from the company and most entrepreneurs don't pay attention to that so people who are smart enough to understand how to run the business of the company where they work, he opens the same business with his workplace after leaving the company where he worked.
If only in the termination of the employment contract there was an agreement not to open the same business due to copyright or other reasons, maybe no one would dare if he was a former employee of that company

[YOSHIE]

What is your view regarding this?

In my view, hiring employees who are smarter than the boss is, of course, one thing and a normal and reasonable decision, there are many factors and advantages from an economic point of view, hiring employees like that, for the reason that the capabilities or expertise possessed by these employees are different, of course each of them masters the field of work.

I'm not sure, if all areas of work can be mastered by one employee who exceeds the superior, there are certain provisions where the superior does not understand in that field of course the employee understands it, However, my understanding is that the boss is not stupid in all areas of work in the company, if he is stupid, he definitely can't start the company from scratch, one or two areas that they are not good at and employees who are smarter than the boss are normal and common in companies, but not all fields.

As a whole and the fact of hiring smart employees from the boss in certain fields, which will definitely benefit the company economically / assets, for me it is reasonable and worthy to be employed.

[GiftedMAN]

Using myself as an example to the question of the OP, I got employed in a gas company earlier last year, having had a good experience before getting the job and bringing a good idea that helped the company's expansion got me a promotion and that alone made my boss take me as one of his smartest staff since I contributed to the expansion of his company within a short period.

Lately, I discovered that am not allowed to make some deals with most of our customers this is because my boss believes that with the way things are going and the way I get things sorted when there are troubles in the company, I can take away all his customers when I establish my own company since the customers are always requesting that I attend to them whenever they are coming to patronize the Company and things will be bad for him when am no longer there.

Employ smart employees but employing a smarter employee than you will make you uncomfortable if you can't trust them and when there is no trust you can never have peace within you because you will also feel cheated especially in a company where there is constant cash flow.