Felix Dennis Quotes

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

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.

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

You can inspire people to give you greatness, or you can micro-manage them into your own one specific kernel of an idea. To me, I think that when you inspire people to give their best, then you're going to get the best result.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

You get the best out of people by allowing them to do their best work.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

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.

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.

If you can inculcate in your team that every moment means everything, you can then step back to let them lead.

Anytime the coach gives you the ball and some encouragement, you get a sense of freedom.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

I'm always just trying to get the work done so that I can be free - like, with the sense that, like, the real me has no interest in this? I just gotta do it for my boss. But the catch is that I'm never free, I never finish the work, so I don't know who this freewheeling employee with extracurricular interests is.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.