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.
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.
Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.
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