Sublime

If I look at our success over the last thirty years, it really comes down to having learned to trust people, to trust their judgment, and to delegate to skilled people.

Peter Drucker and his

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Years later, after Grove had learned to appreciate this, he read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. That was the case at Intel,

The second book he bought was Drift into Failure by Sidney Dekker, which he passed out to all his IT infrastructure and operations people. Dekker’s book forces organizational managers to rethink blame and accountability in complex processes. When something goes wrong, it asks, “Should you blame the person? Or is it the system?”2*

There is a natural tendency for people in such staff functions, often with the best of intentions, to prove their worth by finding ways to “add value”, devising rules and procedures, building up expertise, finding new problems to solve. Ultimately, they concentrate power and decision-making away from the frontline. People there feel disempowered: t