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No employee is simply talented or mediocre or bad. Everyone you meet has strengths and weaknesses. Some people's strengths aren't in demand every day, but cruci
by networkimprov 6y ago
No employee is simply talented or mediocre or bad. Everyone you meet has strengths and weaknesses. Some people's strengths aren't in demand every day, but crucial when called upon. Others have weaknesses which rarely appear, but are terribly damaging when they do.
And everyone is drawn to the company of others in the workplace based primarily on interpersonal factors, not others' ability or performance or lack thereof.
Certainly, there are toxic personalities which can poison an environment, but they generally have some valuable assets as well.
Deciding to leave an organization because of its people is never a simple calculation.
- Aeolun 6y ago> Deciding to leave an organization because of its people is never a simple calculation. I think this is the simplest calculation of all, and generally the reason people leave or stay in an organization. You can say that everyone has strengths and weaknesses, which is probably true, but if their weaknesses are all in the sector in which they’re working, they’re still going to be terrible.
- gerland 6y agoI've never seen a bad programmer who starts to produce good code when project begins to fail. Excusing toxic managers because the project is still rolling does not make sense, since we ignore how much better would it be with someone who can actually do their job. Unless you're in sales there is no benefit to being the rotten apple.
- dredmorbius 6y agoHow the team is assembled matters. Of heaven and hell: In heaven, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, the mechanics are German, the police are British, and everything is organised by the Swiss. In hell, the cooks are British, the lovers are Swiss, the mechanics are French, the police are German, and everything is organised by the Italians.
- boznz 6y agoFrom the number of cooking programs on my TV with british cooks at the moment I would assume the british have upped the game a bit on cooking :-)
- dredmorbius 6y agoHow many are curries or other imports? ;-) (Says the cat who's been home-baking crumpets.)
- networkimprov 6y agoAh but individuals are more complicated than national stereotypes! And that is a very old joke, from the 19th or early 20th century, when the world was Euro-centric.