Ben C. Davis

Films have the nobility of entertaining people

Films reach for a deeper truth

Steve jobs demanded specificity

truths are often incorrect

They are just starting off points

Give good ideas to a mediocre team and they'll screw it up, give a mediocre ideal to a great team they will either fix it or come up with something better.

When looking to hire, look more at their potential rather than their current skill

Find smarter people than you

Don't dismiss ideas from anyone

You also need to engage with these ideas

Get rid of reasons why people are not candid

If someone disagrees, first find out what they mean

If there's fear in the company, find the reason, then understand it and then remove it

Other points of view are shot down when you are convinced you're right

If there is more truth in the hallways that meeting rooms. Something is wrong

Managers feel like if they are surprised by something it's a sign of disrespect. Get over it.

Careful messaging to downplay problems makes you out to be lying or ignorant. Share problems honestly.

Do not try to prevent errors too much.

Managers shouldn't prevent risk, it should be safe to take risk

Failure isn't an evil, it's a necessary consequence of doing something new

Trust doesn't mean you trust they won't screw up, it means if they screw up you still trust them

People implementing s plan need tone given autonomy to fix a problem

Desire to make things run smoothly is a false goal, leads to measuring people by the mistakes they make, rather than their ability to solve problem

Don't wait for things to be perfect, show early and show often

Everybody should be able to talk to anybody

Don't make too many rules. Address issues of common sense on a individual basis

Imposing limits can create a creative response

Engaging with exceptionally hard problems encourages thinking differently

An organisation is more conservative to change even when everyone is individually into it

Managers need to protect the future and their new ideas, things start off ugly - they need to be protected. Especially from people who don't get this. Don't protect the pass

Excellence, quality, and good are earned words.

Stability should be a goal. Balance should be.

Don't confuse process with the goal. Process is not the goal, making the product great is.