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I think I see where you’re coming from, but how I interpreted it, it’s just really hard to make these decisions, and from a managers perspective its not that bl
by hectormalot 3y ago
I think I see where you’re coming from, but how I interpreted it, it’s just really hard to make these decisions, and from a managers perspective its not that black and white:
- almost any change will have have people arguing for and against it
- if ‘company values’ is a trump card to prevent a change, it will be used by the people against the change
- as a manager, to still make decisions in such an environment, you’ll find yourself needing to weigh the upsides and downsides even if there are strong company values (it just puts a higher weight on certain concerns)
- as parent said, short term impact supported with numbers is easier to weigh and defend than (possible but unknown) long term detrimental impact.
Thus, I think parent is right. Even in corporates with strong company values, it’s easier to prioritize the short term proven impact over long term unproven impact. And therefore, at scale, such decisions will be made.
- thrashh 3y agoStill, that’s what sets a good manager from an average, no? No different with how there are relatively few good engineers but most are average or bad? I mean there are companies that put out good products but most are average at best. I suppose A/B testing is bad in the way that table saws are bad — that they are dangerous and I see a lot of videos of people using them in ways that are gonna chop off their fingers, but I wouldn’t blame the table saw for it or want to take it away.