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"There is a larger moral here: The people in the trenches know best." It seems obvious, and yet it is a truth so many leaders fail to grasp. Keeping a finger
by Nelkins 8y ago
"There is a larger moral here: The people in the trenches know best."
It seems obvious, and yet it is a truth so many leaders fail to grasp. Keeping a finger on the pulse of employee attitudes is a great way to nip issues in the bud before they become systemic.
Although I guess that doesn't really help if the leader is the issue.
- busterarm 8y agoThe problem is that the grunt employees know where the bodies are buried. There's usually a body or two buried somewhere -- if you kept the pulse of grunt employees, you'd never invest in anything.
- mmt 8y agoI'd expect that's only true for a particularly risk-averse investor. If there's a metaphorical body buried in almost every company, then that's just risk, and knowing what it is would actually be better for an investor than not knowing. Why would it be a dealbreaker?
- busterarm 8y agoAt Theranos at least, they could have been very literal bodies.