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Sorry for another negative post. As a PM, the example stated seems a bit absurd and definitely not the environment for me. A transparent and healthy company cu
by georgeglue1 11y ago
Sorry for another negative post. As a PM, the example stated seems a bit absurd and definitely not the environment for me.
A transparent and healthy company culture lets people (briefly) reason and talk about projects/strengths. There shouldn't be some sort of implicit beauty contest, rewarding aggressive employee who are underloaded.
There must be better ways to develop talent. The method listed also creates a lot of weird incentives/strategies if employees know what is going on.
- tboyd47 11y agoAgreed. You really hit the nail on the head when you said "aggressive." This strategy seems like it would create an artificially competitive zero-sum game within the company where employees who should be working together are competing to be the golden volunteer for the boss. I think it would be better to always have fewer tasks than people (not more tasks, like the author seems to suggest), but establish high-level goals for the team as a whole. You'll quickly see who is best at understanding the goals, turning them into work, and recruiting other people to help do that work, which is real leadership (not just jumping to do extra tasks).
- cpeterso 11y agoAnd if there is important work that has not been staffed with a person, then was it really important in the first place?