Make sure to monitor your team every day and force their performance first thing in the morning. Focus on the daily grind to ensure meaningful change can never occur.
Hire randomly
Never put in the work to identify potential candidates based on their contribution to the industry or relevant projects. Always rely on blind applications to a job ad then make the applicants perform grueling and humiliating coding tests until they've successfully demonstrated their pain tolerance and allegiance.
RTO
Make your developers as uncomfortable as possible and force them to move to the most expensive real-estate market possible. It's important to remind individual contributors of their position on the social hierarchy. Home ownership and starting a family is for execs only.