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For me it was the constant feeling that tasks and responsibilities and difficult decisions are piling up faster than I could process them. Not just "I have too
by zelos 5y ago
For me it was the constant feeling that tasks and responsibilities and difficult decisions are piling up faster than I could process them.
Not just "I have too much work to do", but "I have too much work to do and every day it gets worse, and in the morning meeting my team will tell me they all have too much work to do too, and lots of the problems are due to bad tech decisions I took in a hurry a while ago due to inexperience and lack of time, and... and...".
Fortunately I had an understanding manager who spotted me shaking in the lift into the office one afternoon and helped sort things out.
- alexis_fr 5y ago> and helped sort things out How? Being overloaded for a long time is also sometimes a sign that the business is failing. Which is horrible: It is when a founder is the most tired that he has to deal with the most unknown part of the work. For a simple project manager, it is often when you miss a deadline that you have to write reports and deal with stakeholder dissatisfaction, which cascades into missing other deadlines and having to implement more and more damage control to perform. Sometimes the only way is to walk away and let it all crumble.
- zelos 5y agoIn the short term by moving responsibilities around - in my inexperience I didn't realise that it was okay not to be able to cope with that level of work. In the longer term (eventually) cancelling the project and reorganising.