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.
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.
There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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