[darkerside]

I understand the first point, but I disagree that is always going to be possible or the correct path. If you blindly trust every employee, you will eventually end up hurting the company, the employee, and yourself.

Second point, sure. That's the ideal. But it's not always going to happen, and you need to be able to deal with that situation to be a well rounded manager and leader. IMO.

[psds2]

I didn't see any discussion of blind trust. The first point was about focusing on looking at the trust and figuring out how it could be built up.

[darkerside]

And I'm saying there are points where it doesn't make sense too do that. I believe that's the most effective path 90% of the time, but you are not a complete manager if you can't deal with the 10% edge cases effectively.

[philosopher1234]

Thank you for being a voice of reason. Puritanism is so popular on HN.