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There's a high level of distrust in this comment, both of peers and of managers, which I think misses an underlying thing: teams without this level of distrust
by majormajor 6y ago
There's a high level of distrust in this comment, both of peers and of managers, which I think misses an underlying thing: teams without this level of distrust of each other and of management have a lot of advantages.
So if you're a manager: do your damnedest to build trust.
If you don't have that trust, it will be hard to pull off any of these activities. Even around things like spreading work and knowledge around - distrust is how you get people hoarding knowledge for perceived job security; or bitterness about being asked to do something they aren't the best at (feeling like you're setting them up to fail instead of trying to up their skills).
- g051051 6y agoI just don't trust people in general...it has nothing to do with the team. I've been stabbed in the back too many times for trusting people to do the right thing.
- renewiltord 6y agoHopefully, it is made clear to you that the team operates as a high-trust cooperative and you can self-select out of that environment since you find it undesirable. You and this style of team are incompatible.
- pixelbash 6y agoThis makes little sense in context. Whether or not someone finds something desirable doesn't matter if their experience is that it doesn't happen in practise. It's hard to unlearn painful lessons in trust.