Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.
Naval's leverage-types lists labor as the least effective lever ("oldest, smallest leverage, most fought-over"). Greene's L7 says labor leverage is the first lever to reach for, with the principal's credit at the center. The disagreement is real: Naval treats labor as a substitute for the operator's specific knowledge; Greene treats labor as the operator's amplification vehicle. The operator picks: use labor to amplify your own specific-knowledge contribution, never as a substitute for it. The "always take the credit" clause is corrosive and should be quietly discarded — modern operators who try it once lose all subsequent collaborators.
Capital + labor leverage in concentrated form. The risk: this is the mercenary pattern reversed — you're the principal, your team is the contractor. See concept/avoid-mercenaries for why this is sometimes necessary and sometimes corrosive.
leverage-types lists labor as the least effective lever ("oldest, smallest leverage, most fought-over"). Greene's L7 says labor…
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