Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord

BATB score: 8/10

*BATB re-read  

Best as: a corporate leader’s guidebook on how to build an A-team

Best for: so what kind of leader are you? 

BATB lingering thought: but can you build an A-team in a B-company? I guess… I can try.. I can only try. 

Best to: acknowledge the principles and later explore how to put them into practice

Best quotes: “a business leader’s job is to create great teams that do amazing work on time”

“Hiring talented people who are adults and want nothing more than to tackle a challenge, and then communicating to them, clearly and continuously, about what the challenge is”

“To be able to come in and work with the right team of people - colleagues they trust and admire - and to focus like crazy on doing a great job together.”

“Better yet, don’t assume that people are stupid. Assume instead that if they are doing stupid things, they are either uninformed or misinformed.”

“Your people can handle the truth, straight and in person, and so can you.”

“Are we limited by the team we have not being the team we should have?”

“Sometimes people who were just right for an organization at a certain point and loved working for it are best off moving to a new organization with a similar set of challenges and environment.”

“More people will not necessarily do more work or better work; it’s often better to have fewer people with more skills who are all high performers.”