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Yup, very similar scenario in The Phoenix Project. And thank you for the reminder of that. It occurred to me reading the original article and this reply to it
by tonyarkles 9y ago
Yup, very similar scenario in The Phoenix Project.
And thank you for the reminder of that. It occurred to me reading the original article and this reply to it that I may be somewhat putting myself in a Rick situation right now.
I don't have any good book recommendations, but I'd be delighted if anyone else did :)
- bartread 9y agoI can sympathise. I've basically been brought in to take over from someone who was the technical bottleneck for the company I now work for so that he can get on with being CTO. For a while I was necessarily working alone, but now I've hired a team and am in the process of eliminating myself as the bottleneck: by the time I go on holiday at the end of this week I want to be off the critical path and never find myself on it again.
- tonyarkles 9y agoAre you me? :) That's probably the solution: find at least one other person for this team. The CTO was amazingly taking care of all of the infrastructure himself, I came in to lighten his load, and I feel like we could use another person or two to bring it down to a manageable level.
- user5994461 9y agoIt's simple to avoid: 1) don't work more than 45 hours a week, ever. 2) if you are forced to work any saturday or sunday, you take one day off in the following week. 3) don't work when you are outside of work. no remote access, no email, no slack, no app on your phone, don't accept calls from work.