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← The goal is to get people not to be good but to behave well

17 connected korrents · 12 moments from 28 Oct 2011 to 29 Sept 2026.

Everything filed under management management Everything filed under hiring hiring Everything filed under team size team size Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: The goal is to get people not to be good but to behave well The goal is to get people not to be goodbut to behave well BS B. F. Skinner — holds since c. 1971 — tap for who they are Same subject: The goal is to free people not from control but from certain kinds of control — tap to centre the map on it The goal is to free people not fromcontrol but from certain kinds ofcontrol BS B. F. Skinner — holds since c. 1971 — tap for who they are Same subject: The problem with most people is not what they are doing wrong, but what they are not doing right. — tap to centre the map on it The problem with most people is notwhat they are doing wrong, but whatthey are not doing right. Last stated 2 years ago 21 Aug 2024 VV Visakan Veerasamy — holds since 2024-08-21 — tap for who they are Same subject: Being good is no easy task — tap to centre the map on it Being good is no easy task AR Aristotle — holds since c. 367–322 BCE — tap for who they are Same subject: Putting a price on good things can corrupt them — tap to centre the map on it Putting a price on good things cancorrupt them MS Michael Sandel — holds since c. 2012 — tap for who they are Same subject: People probably want to do business with people more than with companies, and companies afraid of ever saying or doing anything wrong are not endearing. — tap to centre the map on it People probably want to do businesswith people more than withcompanies, and companies afraid ofever saying or doing anything wrongare not endearing. Last stated 9 months ago 15 Feb 2026 JF Jason Fried — holds since 2026-02-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: It is not bad for people or nations to do right for selfish reasons — tap to centre the map on it It is not bad for people or nationsto do right for selfish reasons FD Frederick Douglass — holds since c. 1881 — tap for who they are Same subject: Keeping ineffective people is a debt owed to the effective ones, and promoting anyone whose merit is not obvious to everybody else erodes the culture. — tap to centre the map on it Keeping ineffective people is a debtowed to the effective ones, andpromoting anyone whose merit is notobvious to everybody else erodes theculture. Last stated 5 months ago 2 Jun 2026 MP Mark Pincus — holds since 2026-06-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: People are very good at solving problems but tend to solve the wrong ones — tap to centre the map on it People are very good at solvingproblems but tend to solve the wrongones Last stated 2 years ago 28 Oct 2024 YH Yuval Noah Harari — holds since 2024-10-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: "Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role. — tap to centre the map on it "Hire great people and get out oftheir way" is dangerous advice foranyone in a leadership role. Last stated 2 years ago 17 Dec 2024 CM Charity Majors — holds since 2024-12-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is. — tap to centre the map on it A career goes better attached to thepart of a business that brings themoney in than to a cost centre,whatever the work itself is. Last stated 15 years ago 28 Oct 2011 PM Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2011-10-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills. — tap to centre the map on it A career ladder must not be achecklist that guarantees promotion,because a promotion depends on theorganisation’s needs as much as onthe employee’s skills. Last stated a year ago 28 May 2025 CF Camille Fournier — holds since 2025-05-28 — tap for who they are Same subject: A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace. — tap to centre the map on it A few senior individual contributorscan be paid VP money and still costless than the layered product orgthey replace. Last stated 3 months ago 2 Aug 2026 TV Tom Verrilli — holds since 2026-08-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth. — tap to centre the map on it A functionally organised engineeringteam seizes up at around a hundredpeople, because every feature thenhas to be negotiated against everyother team's bandwidth. Last stated 7 months ago 1 Apr 2026 TP Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance. — tap to centre the map on it A group of fewer than four people isnot a team: it behaves like a set ofindividuals, and a single departureknocks it back into maintenance. Last stated 8 years ago 14 Jul 2018 WL Will Larson — holds since 2018-07-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better. — tap to centre the map on it A CEO cannot be a calibratedinterviewer for every role, soinsisting on interviewing everycandidate makes hiring worse ratherthan better. Last stated 2 years ago 17 Dec 2024 CM Charity Majors — holds since 2024-12-17 — tap for who they are Same subject: A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work. — tap to centre the map on it A company hiring a designer is nothiring a politician or spokesperson,so it should just get into thedesign work. Last stated a month ago 29 Sept 2026 DM Danny Martinez — holds since 2026-09-29 — tap for who they are Same subject: A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it. — tap to centre the map on it A company is not sensitive to thefew thousand dollars a candidate isafraid to ask for, because thefully-loaded cost of employing themdwarfs it. Last stated 15 years ago 23 Jan 2012 PM Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2012-01-23 — tap for who they are
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At the centre The goal is to get people not to be good but to behave well Last stated c. 1971 Holds B. F. Skinner Read this korrent →