We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
Interpretation
Hire the best talent and allow them to work independently.
This quote emphasizes the importance of assembling a competent team and then granting them the autonomy to execute their tasks without unnecessary interference. Trusting skilled individuals to perform their roles can lead to greater innovation and success within an organization.
In practice
In a leadership workshop discussing team management strategies.
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.
Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.
I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.
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