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 yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.
In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.
Either love your players or get out of coaching.
The reality is that the United States military alone cannot be all things to all nations. We will sharpen the application of our resources, better deploy our forces in the world and share our burdens more and more effectively with our partners. And frankly, all our allies need to do the same.
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