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Nailed it. Trust is everything. Part of trust is competence. Part of it is being a decent human. A big part is getting to know your coworkers and understanding

Nailed it. Trust is everything. Part of trust is competence. Part of it is being a decent human. A big part is getting to know your coworkers and understanding what makes each other tick. One of the biggest mistakes I made early in my career was thinking work was all about the work. It didn’t matter what people thought of me or what I thought of them. It matters a great deal. You don’t have to be friends with coworkers, and have drinks with all of them on Fridays, but you should generally respect the people you work with and they should respect you and that can take some effort and time, but it will pay off in the long run and you will like your job more.

ignoramous 6y ago
Copy pasting from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21753347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21753347 --- Similarly, Google trying to find out what successful teams did differently is a great read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399 Some excerpts: > ... Google’s intense data collection and number crunching have led it to the same conclusions that good managers have always known. In the best teams, members listen to one another and show sensitivity to feelings and needs. > ... Google, in other words, in its race to build the perfect team, has perhaps unintentionally demonstrated the usefulness of imperfection and done what Silicon Valley does best: figure out how to create psychological safety faster, better and in more productive ways. > Project Aristotle is a reminder that when companies try to optimize everything, it’s sometimes easy to forget that success is often built on experiences — like emotional interactions and complicated conversations and discussions of who we want to be and how our teammates make us feel — that can’t really be optimized.

ignoramous 6y ago

Copy pasting from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21753347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21753347 --- Similarly, Google trying to find out what successful teams did differently is a great read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399 Some excerpts: > ... Google’s intense data collection and number crunching have led it to the same conclusions that good managers have always known. In the best teams, members listen to one another and show sensitivity to feelings and needs. > ... Google, in other words, in its race to build the perfect team, has perhaps unintentionally demonstrated the usefulness of imperfection and done what Silicon Valley does best: figure out how to create psychological safety faster, better and in more productive ways. > Project Aristotle is a reminder that when companies try to optimize everything, it’s sometimes easy to forget that success is often built on experiences — like emotional interactions and complicated conversations and discussions of who we want to be and how our teammates make us feel — that can’t really be optimized.