Best book on hiring people to boost your business' growth?

[RealDreams]

I'm looking to hire some people to help me build my business. I'm a web developer but the platform I am building is, unfortunately, going to take a long time and I need some help.
I was wondering if anyone knows a great book on hiring people. I'm not talking about just the act of hiring great individuals, but which individuals to hire in the first place.

How do you establish what skills and people you need the most? The 20% that brings 80% of the results? For instance, I could hire another web developer, but what if hiring a finance expert yields a better ROI? Or maybe a project manager? I'm struggling to figure out how to even start my business and what are the most essential skills and labor I need to launch my startup.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

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[MythOfSisyphus]

Try the E-Myth by Michael E Gerber.

It covers everything you've mentioned here including doing a 80/20 analysis of your processes etc.

There's not many business books I recommend but that one helped me a great deal.

 

[David Fitz]

Try Systemology and also the E-Myth

They aren't necessarily about hiring but about building systems so when you hire someone they can step in and do things correctly.

 

[Black_Dragon43]

I'm looking to hire some people to help me build my business. I'm a web developer but the platform I am building is, unfortunately, going to take a long time and I need some help.
I was wondering if anyone knows a great book on hiring people. I'm not talking about just the act of hiring great individuals, but which individuals to hire in the first place.

How do you establish what skills and people you need the most? The 20% that brings 80% of the results? For instance, I could hire another web developer, but what if hiring a finance expert yields a better ROI? Or maybe a project manager? I'm struggling to figure out how to even start my business and what are the most essential skills and labor I need to launch my startup.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I think hiring people isn’t the right idea when you lack leadership. It sounds like you have no vision, and you’re looking to hire someone to provide that vision.

But that’s the one thing you can’t do as the owner. You can hire for any job, including sales, but you cannot hire for vision, ie someone who will tell you what you should be aiming for.

So start with the end in mind. How do you want your business to look like 5 years from today? And then go back from there and trace the steps you need to take to get there, including the people you need to hire.

 

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[alexkuzmov]

I'm struggling to figure out how to even start my business and what are the most essential skills and labor I need to launch my startup.

Start from here and forget about hiring people.
Figure out what is the most essential part of the business and focus on that.
My guess would be that you need to focus on sales more than anything else for the time beeing, even before you have a finished product.
You know so you can check what the market wants.
After you`ve figured out what the most essential part is, get good at it and only then consider hiring someone to replace you.
Thats how you`ll easily know what skills to look for and hopefully you`ll have the funds to actually hire someone.