A reporter asked the great American industrialist Andrew Carnegie “how did you manage to hire 43 millionaires?”

Mr. Carnegie responded “that none of them were millionaires when I hired them.” When asked how he developed them, he said, “You develop millionaires the same way you mine for gold. You expect to move tons of earth to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the land, you go in looking for the gold.”

Andrew Carnegie knew how to select his winning team. Zig Ziglar says you have to “be a good seeker” and Mr. Carnegie was a “good seeker.”

Mr. Carnegie wrote in his Autobiography: “The development of my material success in life cannot be attributed to what I have known or done for myself, but to the power of knowing and choosing others who know better than I.” .

What are the 3 ways that Andrew Carnegie recruited his team members?

1) The experts in the steel business.

2) He embraced diversity for his team members by selecting people based on their skills, personalities, business experience and believed that if you had the experience he was looking for, your age or gender didn’t matter. Mr. Carnegie wanted the best members for his team.

3) Mr. Carnegie was willing to “learn and listen” to the people he led.

Andrew Carnegie said: “I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of machinery – man.”

She also said, “As I get older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

Throughout his life he was “an avid reader.” As a young bookkeeper, on Saturdays he was invited to go to private libraries of well-to-do citizens to read and learn from his collections. Once he achieved success, he repaid by helping build “three thousand libraries” so young people would have appropriate books to read.

Carnegie-Mellon University was built by Andrew Carnegie, as was Carnegie Hall in New York City, the most famous concert hall in the United States. He also donated more than $350 million dollars to his public foundations and makes grants annually “for the benefit of the public.” His foundations continue to give to worthy recipients each year. In 1999, his Carnegie Corporation of New York was valued at more than $1.55 billion, even after continually making “million dollar” grants.

In the movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” Richard Dreyfuss stars as Glenn Holland, a musician and songwriter who takes a job as a high school band teacher to support his family. His dream was to write a great symphony. Over the course of 30 years, Mr. Holland becomes a compassionate and caring teacher who inspires, motivates and encourages his students to “love learning”. He worked diligently with them and was willing to go the extra mile to make a difference. Mr. Holland was determined to educate his students and make them into fine young men and women who could study, work hard, and think clearly to achieve their goals for the future.

In his 30th year of high school teaching, the music program is being phased out and Mr. Holland will no longer have a job. As he prepares to leave the school for the last time, he hears sounds coming from the auditorium. As he enters the auditorium he sees his former students on stage with their instruments preparing to play the music on their music stands. Seated in the packed auditorium are his wife, his daughter, his fellow teachers and more of the alumni he has helped educate over the years. He is asked to take the baton and conduct his symphony for the concert.

Mr. Holland’s “true symphonic masterpieces” were all of his former students whom he nurtured and groomed over the years to be fine young men and women who would achieve their goals and help others to achieve them, just as the Mr. Holland taught them how to do it. do!

What 3 things did Mr. Holland teach his students that benefited them throughout their life’s journey?

1) He taught his students the joy of learning by making it fun and exciting to learn. He showed them with a positive attitude how to focus and concentrate at work and how to enjoy working with others. He taught them using the “learn by example” approach.

2) He taught his students by encouraging, motivating and inspiring them to do their best work. He was always kind, patient and compassionate to each student and they knew that he cared for them and believed in them. he the he removed road blocks of his path and made each of his students believe in himself. He was always willing to spend the extra time explaining a difficult concept until the student understood the material, giving them self-esteem and self-worth.

3) He taught his students to never give up and how to work step by step to do their best work and be able to think clearly and concisely.

So what three things should you do to develop your winning team at your company or school like Andrew Carnegie and Glenn Holland?

one) Throughout his life, Andrew Carnegie was “an avid reader.” Never stop learning and always continue to develop your mind by studying and reading to gain new knowledge every day.

2) Glenn Holland showed compassion and dedication to helping his students understand the material by explaining it step by step clearly and concisely. Jackie Robinson said: “A life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives.”

3) Andrew Carnegie developed his team members by extracting gold from each of them. Glenn Holland, like Andrew Carnegie, developed his students by extracting gold from each of them.

Benjamin Franklin asked himself each morning “What good will I do today?” And before going to sleep at night he would ask himself “What good have I done today?”

You should ask yourself these two questions every morning and evening. As you lead your team at work or teach your students, be willing to help them reach the gold within.