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> At the last conference I attended, I asked most people I met two questions: > 1. Do you know of any companies that aren't highly dysfunctional? > 2. Do you
by brownbat 6y ago
> At the last conference I attended, I asked most people I met two questions:
> 1. Do you know of any companies that aren't highly dysfunctional?
> 2. Do you know of any particular teams that are great and are hiring?
> Not one single person told me that their company meets the criteria in (1).
Reminded me a lot of Ribbonfarm on the Gervais Principle:
"Hugh MacLeod’s cartoon is a pitch-perfect symbol of an unorthodox school of management based on the axiom that organizations don’t suffer pathologies; they are intrinsically pathological constructs."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- cbsmith 6y agoNot that the Gervais Principle is wrong, but you gotta think bigger. If you're at a conference where no one knows of a functional company with good teams that are hiring... maybe you're at the conference that attracts all the people stuck in a world of terrible teams and dysfunctional companies? I mean, doesn't it make sense that if you can't identify good teams or good companies, you'd also suck at identifying good conferences? ;-)