Sean Michael Kerner writes about Mike Shaver, co-founder of the Mozilla project, who recently presented on the topic of how people contribute to open source projects.

Here are two quotes that could be broadly applied to management in general:

To an employee (sic): “Think about what is the thing that you do best. Whatever it is, that’s your X factor, your superpower. Think about how you can you use that.”

On being the manager: “I help people match those things up. That’s my call to action.”