Tulsi Tanti Quotes

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.

That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.

I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

As leaders, I think we have to give people in many places a chance to have success, not continue to put those people down.