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Op here. I agree team morale is absolutely essential. At the same time, as a manager you should understand how your team adds value to the company - and if it d
by gregdoesit 9y ago
Op here. I agree team morale is absolutely essential. At the same time, as a manager you should understand how your team adds value to the company - and if it doesn't, fix that.
I write this from personal experience, having seen teams been disbanded who did a great job shipping... stuff that brought in zero value to the company. This is something I personally would want to avoid if possible, hence me putting "company first" as #1.
Of course no two situations and companies are the same, so there might be cases when having a healthy team trumps doing what the company (thinks it) needs. For now I'm personally sticking to aligning all three where I can: have a great team building things that matter with satisfied members.
- vonmoltke 9y ago> I write this from personal experience, having seen teams been disbanded who did a great job shipping... stuff that brought in zero value to the company. How do you get to this point? I have never been on a team where someone further up the business wouldn't come up to us at some point and ask, "Uh, what is the business value of what you are doing?"
- lozenge 9y ago"We need this refactoring/migration to enable feature X"
- chi18 9y ago> have a great team building things that matter with satisfied members. Cherish this, and secretly examine every nuance of its ups-and-downs while you can. The basis of all of your future management efforts will be to get back to something similar to this point. Just remember, a manager is a well-organized servant leader who is ultimately never responsible for success.