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When I read this I think they are looking for (beyond those desperate in need of a job) greater fools - the clueless under the Gervais principle, the shleppers
by flashgordon 4y ago
When I read this I think they are looking for (beyond those desperate in need of a job) greater fools - the clueless under the Gervais principle, the shleppers who will take on the risk disproportionate to the reward, the Kool aid drinkers. There is an analogy in every culture for this I am sure.
Edit: OK I know that sounded cynical. In all seriousness if you are not a coaster and are professional about putting in your fair amount of effort and having a delineation between work and life, what "more" is gritty supposed to signal and what is the price one is paying for it?
- zwkrt 4y agoWhen a manager asks for something that is very vague, like “grit”, it allows them to create their own little cult of personality. Because guess who gets to decide who has the “grit”/“moxie”/“chutzpah”/“X Factor”…? The manager does! It allows him to bucket his employees into favorites and sound more objective than he is being.
- flashgordon 4y agoAs a manager this could be biased (I was also cynical so hope that kinda negates the bias). Managers (especially front line ones) have to be mouth pieces of the organisation. They have very little choice in going beyond the written formulas (sorry leadership rubrics) a co expounds. Kinda the worst job. You need to enforce the rules set by the S but take on all the risk (have you noticed how there are bad managers but no bad "leaders"?). Why do they then become managers? We actually want to learn how to run a business in its entirety (beyond just tech) and the HR enforcement aspects are a sad price to pay. But everything you said about cults etc holds true. Just that I'd expand that beyond something what just managers want.
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