Four Things To Do When Your Team Is Smarter Than You

Don't be intimidated by a smart staff, just learn how to direct their intelligence and skills.

If you think the boss should have all the answers, you might be confused about what it means to be a good leader. As a general rule of thumb, every person hired should be smarter than the manager at what they've been hired to do, says Ian Siegel, cofounder and CEO of the employment platform ZipRecruiter. "If every manager at the company keeps doing that, you'll end up with an elite team," he says. "That's the dream."

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