“At Apple we hire people to tell us what to do, not the other way around.” And indeed, this was my experience at the company. At Apple, as at Google, a boss’s ability to achieve results had a lot more to do with listening and seeking to understand than it did with telling people what to do; more to do with debating than directing; more to do with pushing people to decide than with being the decider; more to do with persuading than with giving orders; more to do with learning than with knowing.
A gentle approach on how leaders should be.
