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> If your senior management doesn't understand how your team, as a large unit working together, impacts revenue, then that's kind of the fault of that managemen
by kcplate 3y ago
> If your senior management doesn't understand how your team, as a large unit working together, impacts revenue, then that's kind of the fault of that management.
I am sure they do, but this isn’t about their understanding of your impact on revenue, it’s about your understanding of your impact on the company revenue. If you dont understand your value, you cannot argue your value from a position of strength.
For what it’s worth, every position in a company from bottom to the top has an impact on revenue.
- kramerger 3y agoThis is the attitude you see when someone promotes a salesman to CEO. When you are a hammer, all problems will look like a nail to you. Even in a small company such as a startup, people have specialisations that only when put together will create some value. It is practically impossible for a lowly dev to estimate how much his work this week have contributed to the company bottom line.
- kcplate 3y ago> …contributed to the company bottom line. I was talking revenue and if you really want to be able to argue your value a position of strength, you really should know the difference between revenue and a P&L.
- mint2 3y agoGreat now the janitor has to become an expert in finance.
- kcplate 3y agoHey, if a white collar worker chose to blindly trust a company’s performance and their value and future role within it…so be it. And if a janitor chooses to pay attention to a company’s performance and understands his value to that organization to make sure his role is secure…I won’t deride that choice either. However I will gladly have the opinion that the janitor is a helluva lot smarter for gaining an understanding for their security as opposed to the white collar worker who is blindsided by a layoff.