These are the hiring practices I follow:

• Hire someone smarter than you
• Hire someone different than you
• Hire for skill, but also for creativity, humor, and hustle

Then these are the supervisory practices I follow:

• Praise in public, correct in private
• Care about the person, not only the performance
• Develop everyone: go out into the world and learn things

Available from Amazon and any good bookstore …

And this is a management book that I love: Ed Catmull’s “Creativity, Inc.” It’s about building and sustaining a creative, effective workforce … and the destructive force of mediocrity.  Some favorite lines:

“… My job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for things that undermine it.”

“When faced with a challenge, get smarter.”

“Always take a chance on better, even if it seems threatening.”

“To ensure quality, then, excellence must be an earned word, attributed by others to us, not proclaimed by use about ourselves.”