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Working for a lifestyle company is hard because there’s no protection from the thoughts and actions of the owner. Good or bad, the lack of feedback makes it ha

Working for a lifestyle company is hard because there’s no protection from the thoughts and actions of the owner. Good or bad, the lack of feedback makes it hard to operate as in a normal company. And as we see here, “my way or the highway”. Perhaps critical things should not be based on a such a company - leave these to the boring, sensible ones and let the boutique companies posture and proceed as they think best. “Just execute” doesn’t generate social media hits.

mytailorisrich 4y ago
The professional way to give feedback up the chain is privately and constructively, starting with your manager, and/or HR depending on the issue. An open letter is not professional and publicly criticizing your company or executives is a pretty standard cause for termination.
- cjbenedikt 4y ago
  Who knows? Perhaps they tried to give feedback "up the chain" first and were stone walled?
  - mytailorisrich 4y ago
    Giving feedback does not imply that they have to do what you want...
    - salawat 4y ago
      Note: the key to managing up is not to vent what's on your mind and go back to giving your bosses what they want in the first place. The key is to make them suffer your suffering until they realize that if they don't do something, they won't get what they want. As a middle manager, part of that escalation process is to use every means at your disposal to get things to work then inform the next layer when you've run out of options, and hope they aren't dicks and can send some additional resource your way. You will very quickly discern the practitioners of good (servant) leadership from the bad (narcissistic) generally based on how much they have to have dumped on them before they realize "oh shit, I kinda need them, maybe I should engage". However, you will be surprised how much once you get toward the top becomes a game of intentionally not doing anything because of the general chaos that ensues with lack of ability to reallly work out to the T downstream effects.

mytailorisrich 4y ago

The professional way to give feedback up the chain is privately and constructively, starting with your manager, and/or HR depending on the issue. An open letter is not professional and publicly criticizing your company or executives is a pretty standard cause for termination.

cjbenedikt 4y ago
Who knows? Perhaps they tried to give feedback "up the chain" first and were stone walled?
- mytailorisrich 4y ago
  Giving feedback does not imply that they have to do what you want...
  - salawat 4y ago
    Note: the key to managing up is not to vent what's on your mind and go back to giving your bosses what they want in the first place. The key is to make them suffer your suffering until they realize that if they don't do something, they won't get what they want. As a middle manager, part of that escalation process is to use every means at your disposal to get things to work then inform the next layer when you've run out of options, and hope they aren't dicks and can send some additional resource your way. You will very quickly discern the practitioners of good (servant) leadership from the bad (narcissistic) generally based on how much they have to have dumped on them before they realize "oh shit, I kinda need them, maybe I should engage". However, you will be surprised how much once you get toward the top becomes a game of intentionally not doing anything because of the general chaos that ensues with lack of ability to reallly work out to the T downstream effects.