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Know What Your Coworkers Really Think About You
When you do have some power, you can lose the sense of how you’re behaving and who you are, and you don’t want to do that. It’s dangerous.
Nothing’s more helpful than finding out how others see you. If you can conduct that exercise in an impersonal way, you have information you can’t get any other way.
Let Employees Ask About Anything They Want
If you get people talking and challenging each other, you’re going to have the ability to arrive at the right decision so much quicker and so much easier.
Just make it so it’s a human environment. Do not try to motivate by fear, instead motivate by saying: ‘Let’s win. This is going to be so much fun to figure out. Let’s figure it out together.
Look For Clear Ideas That Can Be Explained In 30 Seconds Or Less
It is important to encourage staff to develop ideas. Allow them to describe their ideas in 15 to 30 seconds. If they can be concise and come up with an idea in a really clear way, it means they are onto something.
Hire People Who Are Smarter Than You
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.