Leadership

Set goals that create gut-punch emotional reactions, not just technically impressive milestones

Evaluate engineers by measurable output—lines of code committed—not by title or tenure

Force employees to opt in to extreme commitment or leave, creating a self-selected team of the most dedicated

Make one metric the opening slide of every meeting and display it like a video game score

Bypass management layers to find and promote exceptional individual contributors

Set impossible deadlines to transform wild ideas from insane to merely very late

All-hands crisis bursts with extreme deadlines to compress months of work into days

Document, Demonstrate, Duplicate — turn any employee into a lead-getter