Motorola’s founder, Paul Galvin, dreamed first and foremost about building a great and lasting company.67 Galvin, architect of one of the most successful technology companies in history, did not have an engineering background, but he hired excellent engineers. He encouraged dissent, discussion, and disagreement, and gave individuals “the latitude to show what they could do largely on their own.”68 He set challenges and gave people immense responsibility so as to stimulate the organization and its people to grow and learn, often by failures and mistakes.69 Galvin’s biographer summarized, “He
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