If you trust your engineers, they will do the right thing
One of my favourite books is The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built the Company, by David Packard. I relate to it in several ways. Some years ago I was working with Hewlett-Packard and was in the same building as the founders, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. At that time, HP was a “Bill and Dave” company: They had tremendous influence on the company’s policies. Trusting employees was really the backbone in terms of people policies. HP was a tech company and engineers ruled the world.
(This story appears in the 05 March, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)