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What I learned about hiring top technical talent.

Article Excerpt
The ability to recruit exceptionally talented and capable management leaders is possibly the purest form of exceptional entrepreneurship and the key to organizational success. The correlation between today's most successful technology companies and their executive team is clearly the founder's ability to hire world-class leadership and management.

Here are ten lessons 1 learned during 11 years consulting and recruiting for Larry Ellison, co-founder and chairman of Oracle Corporation, and several of the gifted entrepreneurs and CEOs spawned by "the house that Larry built." The post-Oracle successes of people like Tom Siebel, founder and chairman of Siebel Systems, Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com founder and chairman, Bernard Liautaud, founder of Business Objects (SAP), and Marten Mickos, CEO of start-up MySQL, are a tribute to Ellison's recognition that Oracle's success was tied directly to the quality, intellect and ferociousness of its leadership. Up until 1992 every leadership role at Oracle required his personal hiring review and endorsement.

Lessons Learned

1. Hire intelligent, driven people.--These are the "type-A" over-achievers with an inbred "fear of failure" personality. You are clearly looking to hire people far more capable than yourself--people who are...

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