You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. There is no reason why you can't build your company the same way. So force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do. Basically take out that red and start eliminating stuff.

If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.