Walter Isaacson Quote
The first rule for such a situation is to make decisions like an engineer, based on technical merit rather than personal considerations. It was a way of getting people to trust me, Torvalds explained. When people trust you, they take your advice. He also realized that leaders in a voluntary collaborative have to encourage others to follow their passion, not boss them around. The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to. Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize.
Walter Isaacson
The first rule for such a situation is to make decisions like an engineer, based on technical merit rather than personal considerations. It was a way of getting people to trust me, Torvalds explained. When people trust you, they take your advice. He also realized that leaders in a voluntary collaborative have to encourage others to follow their passion, not boss them around. The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to. Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize.
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About Walter Isaacson
He has been the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time.
Isaacson attended Harvard University and Pembroke College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He is the co-author with Evan Thomas of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986) and the author of Pro and Con (1983), Kissinger: A Biography (1992), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), American Sketches (2009), Steve Jobs (2011), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021) and Elon Musk (2023).
Isaacson is an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York City-based financial services firm. He was vice chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, chaired the government board that runs Voice of America, and was a member of the Defense Innovation Board.