If You Cannot Trust Your Employees, Please Step Aside

Sean McClure
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

If you cannot trust your employees to compliment your organization’s vision with their unique talents, experience, and perspectives your success is temporary at best. Innovation doesn’t belong to the c-suite, it belongs to the community of people who make a company what it is. Trusting means giving up total control and allowing the forces of individual contribution to maneuver around obstacles and discover possibilities. We don’t need more management, we need more trust and conviction in the power of bringing together many small voices. You are not going to recognize the best talent, because the best talent is unlike so many others. You are not going to immediately appreciate the greatest ideas because if you could you would already be doing them.

In this new age of machine intelligence and adaptive software behavioral skills outweigh the cold logic of our industrial revolution. You cannot filter for talent using code exams or whiteboards. You cannot automate-away the trust pipeline that builds up a company into something more than just another funded logo in the valley. Without trust you lock your organization into the short-lived set of rules with which you started. Nothing in nature has survived without adaptation, and adaptation has never occurred without variation. Learn to take people at their passion. Learn to place confidence in skills you don’t recognize. Learn to cede control to forces that are beyond your instant recognition. Learn to trust; or make way for more enlightened companies to displace your short-lived venture.

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