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What your comment, in other words, boils down to this: managers, directors, VPs, etc, just build their empires by hiring more and people. That's why it is possi
by raincom 4y ago
What your comment, in other words, boils down to this: managers, directors, VPs, etc, just build their empires by hiring more and people. That's why it is possible that "25% or 50% or 90% of that effort [personal productivity] is going towards things that ultimately don’t have impact for customers, it’s not very productive after all."
Maybe, time to trim the fat from the top: get rid of these empires by downsizing. Also, companies at very high level should look at the bad effects of empire building, which happens in every large organization. Now one can ask "who gonna bell the cat"? If executive vice presidents start empire building, who gonna stop that? After all, CEO should give free reigns to his underling EVPs. Maybe, the majority stock holders should bell that cat; however, they have delegated that to the board of directors, who are different set of cats.
- zingar 4y agoCould you clarify what you mean by the expression “bell the cat”?
- subharmonicon 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat
- bstpierre 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat The mice have a solution for the murderous cat: simply put a bell on the cat’s collar and then they will know when it’s coming. But… who’s going to “bell the cat”? i.e. who is going to perform this unpleasant and possibly fatal job?
- subharmonicon 4y ago> What your comment, in other words, boils down to this: managers, directors, VPs, etc, just build their empires by hiring more and people. No, my comment doesn't boil down to that. It boils down to many (not all) ICs, especially ones without a lot of experience, are more interested in focusing on problems that interest them than actual issues that customers want solved. So they go off and start working on interesting problems rather than important ones.