Trust the people you’ve hired to know what they’re doing. Trust them to make decisions. Don’t force teams to reach a consensus. Rely on the experts. Use them for what they do best.

This alone will help improve the performance of your company, because decisions will be made more efficiently, and you’ll know decisions are being made by the people most qualified to make them.

Also, employees who feel respected in this way will perform better on a consistent basis. That said, make sure individuals trust other team members to also make changes and decisions.

In other words, hire people that want to be great and then get out of the way and let them do their jobs.

(This tip is from the Kaizen Software Manifesto. Learn more about it here.)

Posted by Robert on March 5th, 2007