Kobe Bryant says when he shifted from player to CEO he sought to hire curious people and stopped caring as much about how many hours they worked, and started caring more about the quality of their work “I expect excellent work. We all do. I don’t care if you’re here in the office at 6:00 a.m. and you leave at midnight. If the work that you do is average, this is not the home for you.” “Conversely, you cannot be in an office at all and have excellent work, this is the place for you. I don’t really care if you’re here.” “There are a lot of guys that get in the gym and work hard, work hard, work hard, work hard—but then they can’t transition that to 7:30.” “The important thing is curiosity first. I want curious people. People that ask questions, that want to figure things out, figure out new ways to do things. That’s the most important thing.” “Then from that curiosity, having a determination to see that curiosity through. If you figure out this is a particular course of action that we feel like we should be taking, has it been done before? No? That’s exciting to me. Let’s figure it out.”