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I've worked for and with some of the companies that Mochary mentions in his podcast interview with Lenny. https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with
by brindlejim 4y ago
I've worked for and with some of the companies that Mochary mentions in his podcast interview with Lenny.
https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-work-through-fear-and-nurture-innovation-matt-mochary-ceo-coach/ https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-...
They work nothing like he says. It makes me doubt all his other advice. I used to like to read Mochary. Now I think he is selling a line of bull that tech people like to read.
Mostly because he's too high-level and he doesn't have enough windows into the company. "Amazon is good at innovation"... Really? People don't need equity to get motivated? Really?
Amazon employs more than one million people and I guarantee you that many of its teams suck at innovation. Many are full of bozos led by the blind. That's why they buy so many little startups. They failed to build it themselves.
People don't need equity to be motivated? Well, cheap hiring managers want to believe that. Good luck hiring that crucial engineer...
Mochary's experience as an operator is out of date, and his updated opinions depend on news reports and self-reporting.
He fails the Cedric Chin test:
https://commoncog.com/verifying-believability/ https://commoncog.com/verifying-believability/
Definite guru vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgHaFvmY3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgHaFvmY3s