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Richard Morgan
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Leadership Principles
Align incentives
Assume good intent
Avoid single points of failure
Be kind, not nice
Create a continuous learning environment
Create a meritocracy
Cultivate good habits
Deliver incrementally and iterate
Disagree without being disagreeable
Doing what you're good at hurts the team
Don't point fingers
Done is better than perfect
Earn trust proactively
Find smart people who disagree
Hold people accountable
Just start
Leadership is communication
Leadership is not doing
Listen to understand, not to respond
Maximize employee engagement
Never punish honesty
People are not their behaviors
Practice disconfirmation
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast
Write down your principles
You can't delegate culture
Life Principles
Cultivate a growth mindset
Psychology
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1x1 Questions
Other Principles
Software Engineering Best Practices
GitHub
LinkedIn
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Other Principles
Other sources of inspiration for operating principles include:
37signals
The GitLab Handbook
Netflix Culture Deck
Leadership Resources
Harvard Business Review
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment
Ray Dalio’s Principles
Technology Resources & Authors
Staff Engineer
Infrastructure Engineering
The Pragmatic Engineer
Will Larson’s Blog
Tanya Reilly’s blog