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Where do you feel the fault was, wrt communication problems and leadership? Was it because of incentives being wrong in the company, the wrong people in charge

Where do you feel the fault was, wrt communication problems and leadership? Was it because of incentives being wrong in the company, the wrong people in charge, something else?

dchichkov 7y ago
It didn't look like a particular fault of anyone. Building a viable AR headset is a Tony Stark type of affair. The complexity is on par to AV.
RangerScience 7y ago
Senior leadership didn't talk to individual contributors enough. They'd try all sorts of things to set us up for success, but it was generally the wrong thing, or at the wrong time, or the right thing in the wrong way. Re-orgs were really common but really inneffective; I'd find myself on a new team with a new boss and a week later I'd find myself working with the original team and the original boss again, because to do what I needed to do those were the people I needed to work with, not the new team and the new boss. I could generally see what they'd be trying to accomplish with such re-orgs, but not why they thought it would actually accomplish that. The last re-org I was a part of before I left, our team was dissolved and I was re-assigned to a new boss I'd had a pretty terrible time with in the past to do exactly what I'd been doing on the dissolved team, minus many of the best parts. He was absolutely surprised that I was not excited at this change, and could not answer when I asked what the org change was supposed to fix and/or improve. If they'd actually talked to any of us - including my direct manager at the time - prior to springing the change on us, could've probably gotten us on-board and aligned, but that wasn't a thing that usually happened. Incentives and having the right people in charge are a structure to facilitate good communication, they are not a surrogate for that communication. Thanks for the question!

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Where do you feel the fault was, wrt communication problems and leadership? Was it because of incentives being wrong in the company, the wrong people in charge

by aimablerex 7y ago

Where do you feel the fault was, wrt communication problems and leadership? Was it because of incentives being wrong in the company, the wrong people in charge, something else?

dchichkov 7y ago
It didn't look like a particular fault of anyone. Building a viable AR headset is a Tony Stark type of affair. The complexity is on par to AV.
RangerScience 7y ago
Senior leadership didn't talk to individual contributors enough. They'd try all sorts of things to set us up for success, but it was generally the wrong thing, or at the wrong time, or the right thing in the wrong way. Re-orgs were really common but really inneffective; I'd find myself on a new team with a new boss and a week later I'd find myself working with the original team and the original boss again, because to do what I needed to do those were the people I needed to work with, not the new team and the new boss. I could generally see what they'd be trying to accomplish with such re-orgs, but not why they thought it would actually accomplish that. The last re-org I was a part of before I left, our team was dissolved and I was re-assigned to a new boss I'd had a pretty terrible time with in the past to do exactly what I'd been doing on the dissolved team, minus many of the best parts. He was absolutely surprised that I was not excited at this change, and could not answer when I asked what the org change was supposed to fix and/or improve. If they'd actually talked to any of us - including my direct manager at the time - prior to springing the change on us, could've probably gotten us on-board and aligned, but that wasn't a thing that usually happened. Incentives and having the right people in charge are a structure to facilitate good communication, they are not a surrogate for that communication. Thanks for the question!