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Steve Jobs on a related topic, what it means to be a leader: https://youtu.be/rQKis2Cfpeo https://youtu.be/rQKis2Cfpeo Guess VPs (according to both) are it

Nemi 2y ago
I am not a big fan of Steve overall, but the one thing he inherently understood was “identity”. How I am using “identity” in this context is, how someone sees themselves. It is the story they tell themselves about themselves. I am a good leader. I and good at solving problems. I am a dog person. I am tidy or I am sloppy. And on and on. If you hire for identity rather than skillset, you don’t have to manage people. They self-manage. My best managers were ones where the product that they managed was a part of their identity. How it worked. How reliable it was. They weren’t always the smartest people. It often took them longer to solve problems. BUT, they solved them on their own, without me having to supervise. Because they would not give up on the problem until it was solved. To give up would be to admit that their identity was flawed, and that just was not an option. When you hire people like this effectively as a leader you must really allow them to own it. They must have the responsibility and the authority to make decisions, even when those decisions differ from what decision you would make. Results are what matters. Steve understood this.
- chrz 2y ago
  thanks for putting into words what i realised but couldnt formulate. best workers were ones where the product that they managed was a part of their identity.
- astrange 2y ago
  This is important, but you still have to manage those people because nothing lasts forever and they can burn out!
082349872349872 2y ago
If we assume the natural time evolution of groups of people is to decohere (with sqrt t?), being a leader means keeping everyone roughly in phase?
- gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
  -> taoist protocol design* (One too many) sorries?! I haven't looked at the paper that maybe you're (also) referring to even once RRW's 絶対領域? https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8680#comment-2003765 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8680#comment-2003765 *From the foxhunt site https://archive.today/latest/https://www.sohu.com/a/479055368_99902442/ https://archive.today/latest/https://www.sohu.com/a/47905536... Lagniappe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington_at_Pau,_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington_at_Pau,... ""discolored water"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#:~:text=an%20area%20of-,%22discolored%20water%22,-%2C%20an%20indication%20of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#:~...

Nemi 2y ago

I am not a big fan of Steve overall, but the one thing he inherently understood was “identity”. How I am using “identity” in this context is, how someone sees themselves. It is the story they tell themselves about themselves. I am a good leader. I and good at solving problems. I am a dog person. I am tidy or I am sloppy. And on and on. If you hire for identity rather than skillset, you don’t have to manage people. They self-manage. My best managers were ones where the product that they managed was a part of their identity. How it worked. How reliable it was. They weren’t always the smartest people. It often took them longer to solve problems. BUT, they solved them on their own, without me having to supervise. Because they would not give up on the problem until it was solved. To give up would be to admit that their identity was flawed, and that just was not an option. When you hire people like this effectively as a leader you must really allow them to own it. They must have the responsibility and the authority to make decisions, even when those decisions differ from what decision you would make. Results are what matters. Steve understood this.

chrz 2y ago
thanks for putting into words what i realised but couldnt formulate. best workers were ones where the product that they managed was a part of their identity.
astrange 2y ago
This is important, but you still have to manage those people because nothing lasts forever and they can burn out!

082349872349872 2y ago

If we assume the natural time evolution of groups of people is to decohere (with sqrt t?), being a leader means keeping everyone roughly in phase?

gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
-> taoist protocol design* (One too many) sorries?! I haven't looked at the paper that maybe you're (also) referring to even once RRW's 絶対領域? https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8680#comment-2003765 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8680#comment-2003765 *From the foxhunt site https://archive.today/latest/https://www.sohu.com/a/479055368_99902442/ https://archive.today/latest/https://www.sohu.com/a/47905536... Lagniappe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington_at_Pau,_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_Wellington_at_Pau,... ""discolored water"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#:~:text=an%20area%20of-,%22discolored%20water%22,-%2C%20an%20indication%20of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#:~...