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

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.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.