“Hire great people…this is 90% of the solution as hiring wrong can cost you so much.”

Elon Musk

Most Of The Solution

Glassdoor, the employer-review site, put Musk on its list of highest-rated CEOs for the first time in 2017, and in an interview published that June asked him, “Any advice for burgeoning leaders?” The quote is how his answer began, and its ellipsis is Glassdoor’s own, not a cut. In the same answer, he said SpaceX challenges its leaders to “hire people that are better than themselves,” so that the company gets better with each hire.