This approach also applied to key hires.
這一政策也應(yīng)用到了重要職位的招聘上。
He would have candidates meet the top leaders -- Cook, Tevanian, Schiller, Rubinstein, Ive
他會(huì)安排候選人直接面見公司的主要負(fù)責(zé)人--庫克、泰瓦尼安、席勒、魯賓斯坦,還有艾弗,
rather than just the managers of the department where they wanted to work.
而不是只見一下部門經(jīng)理。
"Then we all get together without the person and talk about whether they'll fit in," Jobs said.
“然后我們就會(huì)一起討論他們能不能入選。”喬布斯說。
His goal was to be vigilant against "the bozo explosion" that leads to a company's being larded with second-rate talent.
他這樣做的目的是避免“笨蛋大爆炸”,免得公司上下充斥著二流人才。
For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so.
在生活中,大多數(shù)情況下,“最佳”和“一般”之間大約相差30%。
The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one.
無論是品質(zhì)一流的飛機(jī)還是最棒的美食,它們也只是比平均水準(zhǔn)高30%。

What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer.
但是當(dāng)我見到沃茲尼亞克時(shí),我認(rèn)為他比普通工程師要優(yōu)秀50倍。
He could have meetings in his head.
很多要開會(huì)解決的事在他的腦子里就能完成了。
The Mac team was an attempt to build a whole team like that, A players.
麥金塔團(tuán)隊(duì)就致力于成為一個(gè)全部是他這樣的一流選手的團(tuán)隊(duì)。
People said they wouldn't get along, they'd hate working with each other.
人們總是說他們和別人合不來,他們不喜歡團(tuán)隊(duì)合作。
But I realized that A players like to work with A players, they just didn't like working with C players.
但是我發(fā)現(xiàn),一流選手喜歡和一流選手共事,他們只是不喜歡和三流選手在一起罷了。
At Pixar, it was a whole company of A players.
在皮克斯公司,整個(gè)公司的人都是一波選手。
When I got back to Apple, that' s what I decided to try to do.
當(dāng)我回到蘋果,我決定也這么試一下。
You need to have a collaborative hiring process.
首先就需要一個(gè)協(xié)作式的招聘過程。
When we hire someone, even if they're going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.
當(dāng)我們招聘時(shí),即使那個(gè)人是要去營銷部門的,我也會(huì)讓他和設(shè)計(jì)部的人以及工程師們聊聊。
My role model was J. Robert Oppenheimer.
我一直把羅伯特·奧本海默視為榜樣。
I read about the type of people he sought for the atom bomb project.
我知道他在建立原子彈項(xiàng)目小組時(shí)的招聘要求。
I wasn't nearly as good as he was, but that's what I aspired to do.
我沒有他那么優(yōu)秀,但這是我渴望達(dá)到的目標(biāo)。