If you’re going to hire smart people, you’re going to have to let them apply their skills to their work. Managers can advise, which they’re welcome to do, but they must be extremely careful to avoid having their “advice” interpreted as a command, since on any given technical issue it’s likely that management knows less than the workers in the trenches.
This is doubly true if you're hiring experienced people.
This is doubly true if you're hiring experienced people.
This is important because if you don't let people have real input into the decisions that are being made about the things they are implementing then you will kill motivation.
Killing motivation may or may not harm productivity at the individual level, but it invariably leads to higher turnover, and high turnover harms an organization in many ways.
Killing motivation may or may not harm productivity at the individual level, but it invariably leads to higher turnover, and high turnover harms an organization in many ways.
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