Topic: Do you agree that an employer should hire employees who are smarter than him? - page 2. (Read 824 times)

I believe it is a blessing to have an employee who is smarter than the owner.  As many of here stated, having a smarter employee lessen the burden of the employer in decision-making because the employee can help, suggest, advise and possibly design a new method to the betterment of the company.  Having a smarter employee is like making money works for you with a bonus.


True, it will lessen the cost of training since smarter employees are possibly well equipped with skills and knowledge because these people will never apply to a job if they don't excel.  Smarter people hate being in a mess so they will train themselves personally and then apply for the position in order to impress their employer.


I greatly agree with you.  Employee and employer must grow hand in hand.  They should not limit themselves to the possibilities of growth.  Besides if you employee gain knowledge and skills, the first one to benefits is the company.  This is also the reason why huge company often train their promising employee abroad so that their company will gain benefits from the learning this talen has learned.  Besides, taking very good care of employees make them develop loyalty.


True, that should be the way.  Besides, it is too hard to be the jack of all trades and excel, most people who have lots of skills acquired seldom excel at anything,  so having experts is always a good thing for a company.

Right. Employers are given the full advantage to chose people smarter than them so that they can easily finish their jobs with almost perfection. And since they are more than good enough, employers will not spend more time anymore from training them as it seems their goals are in align with the employer’s goals. The smarter the employees, the higher the chances for the company’s growth and success.

no need to worry. because a boss wants employees who are smarter than him with the reason to be employed in something that the boss cannot do alone.
and in my opinion another reason not to worry is even though employees are smarter than the owner of the company, a boss will definitely always monitor the performance of their employees and set limits.

An important factor for a boss to choose employees who are smarter than him is because a company CEO certainly wants the company to grow to be big by utilizing the intelligence of employees.

Of all the reasons for one not to employ someone that is supposedly smarter than himself or herself, this is one that shouldn't bother you as it seems very selfish. It makes you more of an employer of labour that isn't in support of his or her employees self development. That's not okay as it would build in your staff the need to be dubious.

Employing someone that is supposedly smarter than you is an added advantage to your establishment. At the very least, your sure of some professional service or job. They say "A graders work for C graders", let the brains work while, you manage the brains.

Why not?  Having smarter employee makes the employer's work easier.  In a business, the employer-employee relationship should be learning from one another.  So having a smarter employee means more growth to the employers' wisdom.  Thus, it can have a good effect to his business.



Business boom?  As I said having smarter employees can bring new innovations to the table which can lead to a path of business improvements and progress. 



Lol, if the employee is smarter than the employer, it means the employee has more knowledge to offer than the employer thus it is impossible for the employee to steal known knowledge from the employer besides, employees are bonded with an agreement.  And the wicked employee is very different from smarter employee.  Because smarter employees will think of the consequences if they stole the ideas and methods of their boss.  Besides, those employees that stole client details and steal ideas from the company he is recently employed for are called wicked one.

Usually generalists tend to become bosses or company owners and then hire people who are experts (specialists) in their fields to help develop their companies, so bosses need smart people who can help progress their business or company and if they are not smart they will not be able to. develop.
And if smart people have negative goals or study all the jobs in that company to open their own business or company, it is not easy because it requires big capital, marketing and so on. However, if the employee has a great salary and is comfortable with his job, I don't think it will happen, but it is possible if he wants to be successful and puts in the effort.

To cover up to the areas he lack knowledge. People have different knowledge about different things and no body can be existing with out the other. If you know your weakness area so you need to employ individual to cover that area well so work will be productive. Employment of smart person is also good because some responsibility can be on the employee more than his salary, some CEO do this. They employ base on smart to give you more jobs for salary of one.

Smart employees will be able to innovate for a company, so I agree that an employer should have smarter employees. We can rely on them to make a difference for our company. Regarding the smart guy stealing ideas and getting client details from the office, that's a different matter in my opinion, because every company will provide something different that they offer their clients. And if clients are satisfied with what they get from the company, it will be difficult to convince them to move to a new company that does not necessarily provide a more satisfying service than what they got before.

For me yes, an employer should hire employees who are smarter than him because it will help his business grow faster because smart people could easily adapt to changes and are also teachable. They can also serve as the nervous system of the company. The employer could lead but with smart employees, he can easily build a firm company. There's no sense in aiming to be smarter than everyone because a company also needs the ideas of smart employees to keep the company running for the long term.

Elon is a good example when it comes in doing business, it’s indeed important to get smarter people who can do the job well at the same time contribute ideas into betterment of the project. His SpaceX project as well his other projects are proofs that smarter people can do his ideas. The only thing needed is the owner should have a quality of a leader that he can use in his employee that even they are smarter from him he knows how to handle them and will still follow him as their superior or boss.

An insecure self-centered person certainly does not want people who are smarter than himself. But in this case, he is the one who loses. Everyone wins here if the boss leads these smart people. Of course, there are many parameters for businesses. Business owners may feel uneasiness when they fully grasp a job that is external to their emotional state. The possibility of going to another company with what he has learned, the employee can open his own company.

Recently, I was watching the stream of a businessman dealing with the tourism business. He is currently the owner of the holding and one of the largest holdings in my country. While doing tourism business, they left managers in a few stores years ago, and they learned all the sales tactics and everything from this man to take care of the stores. Afterwards, the owner of the business deals with other jobs and earns more money than us. They opened a new store with the idea of ​​why we don't open our own business. The owner of the business makes a lot of loss here, but later on, he enters the competition with ambition in the business. In this case, both sides suffer long-term losses.

He says the best thing I could do in this situation would be to sell my own stores to them. I think the business owner definitely needs to be flexible and agile when making some decisions. In other words, whether the employees are smart or stupid, it is important to control the situation and it is necessary to be agile.

I myself prefer to have employees who are honest even though their intelligence is not very good. Having employees who are smarter than us is certainly a good thing in building our business so that it is better, provided that these employees are honest employees. but I personally don't mind if my employee is smarter than me as long as he knows himself and can still respect all other colleagues. because according to my experience, there are employees who are not very smart but can have a positive impact on all jobs and are liked by all other employees. employees like that actually bring our business to grow more rapidly. because all employees can work comfortably and optimally.

It’s quite a tough decision to make for a few reasons. If the worker is smarter than it would make more profit for you, and that’s a good thing but at the end of the day they could also leave and build their own thing or maybe find a bigger company as well.

I believe that having a smarter worker would be good for short term until they leave. Whereas if you have a very hard working one, then they will do their best for you, and if they are not smarter, they will have harder time proving that they would be good to other companies and that means they will stay with you longer as well. It’s just a simple approach, do you want short term bigger profit, or long term smaller profit?

Well let’s take Elon musk for example he hires people that are smarter than him who works very hard to build his own empire and he gets more super rich and while their employees just gets their normal pay. This is how Billionaires get rich and their employees earn the little they do.

I don’t think billionaires can do without some smart people around them, left alone they can only do as little as they can, and I doubt if there is any right thinking Employers that would even hire an employee who aren’t smarter especially when the employees are in very important position.

Definitely not. An employer preferably want to hire smart employees, even smarter than the employer, because they don’t need more time and assistance since everything they do seems right and is in favor with the company goals to achieve fast growth and progress. They share common expectations with the employer so there will be a smooth and harmonious relationship between the employer and employees.

What is the point of hiring someone if they are not smarter than you? Have you seen Elon Musk's Space X empire and his workers? Everything in the company is done by scientists because they know the job better than him, but credit goes to Elon. You will never see a headline that says employees invented this or outshined the CEO, they always work in the shadows while the employer enjoys their hard work.


Employers are very careful about how they give or share their trade secrets or intellectual property with anyone, which is why you see that companies do have restricted areas that are off-limits to some staff members. All companies have trade secrets and trademarks, which are what protect the company against copying from other potential people who have a similar interest in operating a similar business or stealing ideas.

Yes, I totally agree that an employer should hire employees that are smarter than him. In my opinion, that’s a great strategy. They would bring their brains and skills to the workplace which in turn would bring about effective and optimal results in the long run.

Obviously, an employer of labor has to employ someone as he couldn’t possibly do all the work himself. That’s why he has to employ someone. Now, every employer would want to hire the most suitable candidate for the job and that is usually the brightest among the bunch.

Not everyone can start up a business, weather the storm over the years as there would be a lot of bad storms and later be some fancy top notch CEO. You just have to hire the best so your business would thrive.

I think employing smart employees have both positive and negative effect, if you are employing a smart employee, it will definitely boost your business, their are some ideas that the employee will have that will help the company's growth which might increase the profit that the company is making. Also the employee might be trying to be smart just as you said and might be trying to steal. What I think is better is that if you are planning to employ any employee that's smarter than you, then I think it's better you monitor your business well even after employing people, don't leave everything just in the hands of your employees.

I agree, if we have a smarter employee it will make the company better and progress, it doesn't matter if we follow the ideas or suggestions that he gives, as owners then we will not be afraid, precisely by having a smarter employee then we have more a lot of time to do other things or develop a business.

I think its not really about smarter. I mean of course it would be superb if they can find a smarter one, because that means someone smarter than you is working for you and that's amazing. However, I feel like it would be more about how much the employee could learn and how hard they work. If a worker is ethical and works hard for the money they earn, and if they also learn how the job is done, then they could end up with something great, they could be a great worker, even if they are not as smart as the owner of the company. Its always better to find a smarter one,  but a hard working learner is the key one you need, that would be great. I am not smarter than my employer for example, but I am sure he likes me because I learned the job very well, and even though I have been lacking recently because of life stuff getting in the way all the god damn time! but normally I am a hard worker as well.