Emanuel Steininger

“Hire people smarter than you. Fail early, fail often. Listen to everyone’s ideas. Face toward the problems. B-level work is bad for your soul. It’s more important to invest in good people than in good ideas.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

“One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together. This task involves many moments of high-candor feedback, uncomfortable truth-telling, when they confront the gap between where the group is, and where it ought to be.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

“I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

“You know the phrase ‘Don’t shoot the messenger’?” Edmondson says. “In fact, it’s not enough to not shoot them. You have to hug the messenger and let them know how much you need that feedback. That way you can be sure that they feel safe enough to tell you the truth next time.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups