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Hire people you love first and determine their roles later
“So one of my rules is to only work with people I love. And when I meet people I really like, I usually just hire them and then I worry less about what to do with them. Like, you know, I don't, I usually don't have a project and I say I need somebody with skill…”
Ariely reads nonsense to students to demonstrate pluralistic ignorance
“I start the class By taking a paragraph from some post-modern literature, a text generator, something, you know, crazy that you don't understand what's going on... And I just read this for five minutes, and, you know, and it's the first class, it's first class…”
Research lab managers should serve staff rather than supervise them
“My style is to hire very good people and to tell them that I'm here when they need me, but I don't need to supervise them. So I say, when you need me, I'm here. I'm at your disposal. I'm at your service rather than you at my service. And when you need me, just…”