Ethan Evans

I'd like to become a leader, learn this technology or get a raise or get on this project.

Can you help me with that?

And good managers will invest back in you.

Even I would say most managers will take care of those who are helping them.

You can't have the problem that a truly bad manager, you know, kind of has this evil cackle and like, this is great.

You're doing what I want.

No, I'm going to keep you prisoner.

You can figure that out, though, pretty quick and move on.

So the idea of the magic loop is get in this virtuous cycle of, hey, I help you, you help me.

And so, for example, I have an employee who started with me at Amazon as an entry level engineer.

Really, he had four years of total experience in his career.

He stayed with me eight years, was promoted three times and then went out on his own.

He founded his own company, something, you know, I'm sure near and dear to your heart.

After that, he took a job back in the corporate world.

And now he has a far bigger organization than I ever had.

He runs a 3000 person global organization for a household named Bank.

You would certainly know.

And that's all him working with me to grow his career.

You know, I could see this guy was a rock star and I just made a deal with him and said, look, you support me.

I'll support you.