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I've worked at all sorts of companies but it's actually been the same company over and over it's the broken top down hierarchy mixed with control dramas and dis

I've worked at all sorts of companies but it's actually been the same company over and over it's the broken top down hierarchy mixed with control dramas and disempowerment where initiative is punishable and the only way to get ahead is to strike a deal with some kind of clique at the expense of the client It's refreshing to know this book exists and I'll certainly look it up but I have zero hope for so called corporate culture because it's lemmings all the way down and lead follow or get out of the way is blocked by some callous know it all opening their yawning pie hole to dish out googlisms

zwischenzug 7y ago
Yes, the writer talks about his failed attempts when he was not in charge of the whole boat in the book.
thrav 7y ago
“the only way to get ahead is to strike a deal with some kind of clique at the expense of the client” Ugh, it makes me sick how true this is, and how much shit I take for refusing to go along with it.
tensor 7y ago
The problem is that many people believe "empowerment" means "do whatever the fuck I want." At any company you are going to have objectives and goals, and empowerment means getting the responsibility to make the hard trade offs yourself. It doesn't mean you can do something outside of the corporate goals, and it doesn't mean you can just ignore some of the challenging parts of the job like delivering a working product to customers in a timely fashion.
- dkarl 7y ago
  The problem is theres's no natural distinction between "what" and "how." Every aspect of how you do your job is meaningful in some way. You have to have a good understanding with your boss about where you have discretion to follow your judgment and where you don't.
  - tensor 7y ago
    That's probably one of the most important things a good boss can do: give exactly that clarity. Define the lane you can run in, and point to the place we want to get.

zwischenzug 7y ago

Yes, the writer talks about his failed attempts when he was not in charge of the whole boat in the book.

thrav 7y ago

“the only way to get ahead is to strike a deal with some kind of clique at the expense of the client” Ugh, it makes me sick how true this is, and how much shit I take for refusing to go along with it.

tensor 7y ago

The problem is that many people believe "empowerment" means "do whatever the fuck I want." At any company you are going to have objectives and goals, and empowerment means getting the responsibility to make the hard trade offs yourself. It doesn't mean you can do something outside of the corporate goals, and it doesn't mean you can just ignore some of the challenging parts of the job like delivering a working product to customers in a timely fashion.

dkarl 7y ago
The problem is theres's no natural distinction between "what" and "how." Every aspect of how you do your job is meaningful in some way. You have to have a good understanding with your boss about where you have discretion to follow your judgment and where you don't.
- tensor 7y ago
  That's probably one of the most important things a good boss can do: give exactly that clarity. Define the lane you can run in, and point to the place we want to get.