Signature Move1 book · 2 highlights
Let Fresh Ideas Prove Themselves Before Shooting
Books Teaching This Pattern
Evidence
Someone Has to Make It Happen; The Inside Story of Tex Thornton, the Man Who Built Litton Industries
Lay Jr. Beirne · 2 highlights
“No one, least of all Singleton or Thornton, knew whether or not the engineers could prove out their radical theories, but a salient trait of Tex's now came into play: he believed then and now that when a subordinate fosters a fresh idea, you don't try to shoot it down before he has had a chance to make it work. Thus he summoned up the guts to under-”
“Anyone with executive responsi- bility of any kind, at any level, is sustained by the occasional de- light of knowing that because of something he promoted, or per- mitted, or most important, pre- vented, others have had a chance to develop capacities or to seize opportunities otherwise beyond their stretch. KINGMAN BREWSTER, PRESIDENT, YALE UNIVERSITY”
Related Patterns
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