Daniel H. Pink Quotes

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do.

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.