Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.
Interpretation
Asking for help is often more effective than simply giving orders.
This quote emphasizes the importance of collaboration and seeking assistance from others instead of taking a purely authoritative approach. It suggests that engaging others through requests for help can lead to better outcomes and foster a more cooperative environment, regardless of the complexity of the task at hand.
In practice
During a team meeting, you could reference this quote to encourage members to share their ideas.
Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack β never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.
Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
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