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This 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
by kramerger 3y ago
This 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.