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It's pretty cringeworthy to think you can bring someone in, externally, to cultivate your culture. It's like all of the pretentious devops leadership that comes
by relaunched 6y ago
It's pretty cringeworthy to think you can bring someone in, externally, to cultivate your culture. It's like all of the pretentious devops leadership that comes in, or the tool-bags that advocate for tools as if they were culture. I don't care what you say, using slack / zoom / github doesn't really say anything about your culture, nor is it in and of itself indicative of a "good engineering culture".
We never learn our lessons, you can't just hire someone into a role and have them change your company. It's just slightly more naive then hiring a digital change management consultant. As far as I'm concerned, hiring a head of remote for a remote company or a head of culture or a head of digital or a head of innovation is a sign that your leadership doesn't know what to do or doesn't think the thing is important enough to spend their time listening to their employees, diving into themselves and cultivating the "head of" _____ . It's pretty tone deaf.
- specialist 6y agoPer corollary to Sturgeon's Law, there's a handful of talented, effective product and project managers. So it's possible that Darren “oracle of remote work” Murph is useful. He's certainly mastered the self-promotion consultant schtick. Slapping a "scrum master" sticker onto someone doesn't make them useful. And if I was pondering delegating some much needed remotefulness stuff, I'd probably eschew a lifestyle media celebrity.
- relaunched 6y agoI'll add, be wary of folks that are hard core self-promoting. Typically they are better at marketing themselves than they are at doing the thing.
- enraged_camel 6y ago>> It's pretty cringeworthy to think you can bring someone in, externally, to cultivate your culture. Terry Tate disagrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94
- pc86 6y agoWho is Terry Tate? Why should we (or anyone) care what he has to say about company culture?
- enraged_camel 6y agoYou can click the link and find out. Happy holidays! :)