“You have to make sure you never confuse the hierarchy that you need for managing complexity with the respect that people deserve. Because that’s where a lot of organizations go off track, confusing respect and hierarchy, and thinking that low on hierarchy means low respect; high on the hierarchy means high respect. So hierarchy is a necessary evil of managing complexity, but it in no way has anything to do with respect that is owed an individual.”
― The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
― The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
“Here’s what I think we face. Here’s what I think we should do. Here’s why. Here’s what I think we should keep an eye on. Now talk to me (i.e., tell me if you (a) don’t understand, (b) cannot do it, (c) see something that I do not).”
― The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
― The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
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