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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x." We eagerly eliminate the nonessentials.