Tell Experts What Needs to Be Done

In other words, don't tell experts what to do. The more cynical of them will do what you tell them. That doesn't sound so bad, until you realize that they are the expert and are doing it out of spite. Neal Stephenson expanded upon this idea in his novel Cryptonomicon—https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Cryptonomicon.html?id=Lw-00wTgBy8C&redir_esc=y:

The extreme formality with which he addresses these officers carries an important subtext: your problem, sir, is deciding what you want me to do, and my problem, sir, is doing it. My gung-ho posture says that once you give the order I'm not going to bother you with any of the details—and your half of the bargain is you had better stay on your side of the line, sir, and not bother me with any of the chickenshit politics that you have to deal with for a living. The implied responsibility placed upon the officer's shoulders by the subordinate's unhesitating willingness...