I worked at IBM Research for 6 years and they have absolutely the best way to achieve the best possible productivity from all employees: The secret? "Trust Yo

I worked at IBM Research for 6 years and they have absolutely the best way to achieve the best possible productivity from all employees: The secret? "Trust Your People". I was a contractor, working offsite, from another country. I used to come to IBM Research facility once a month and we had quick discussion: "Should we add this? Ok. Let this guy (me) do that". After that I disappear for a month or two, charge IBM hourly and then present a report of what was done. Result: we had the best enterprise security product on the market that actually generated plenty of revenues for the company. Hats off to IBM and to SRW, JM, JK, BA, and of course DC! Granted we were smaller team - 20 people in total or so. Lots of new people were coming in and doing their best to deliver their best. There was something spiritual about this, but it worked like a charm.