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Everyone regardless of status, position and experience requires professional development. Otherwise you claim omnicience. Finding willing participants to seed

by bloqs 3y ago

Everyone regardless of status, position and experience requires professional development. Otherwise you claim omnicience. Finding willing participants to seed a narcissistic pyramid of self congratulation who are willing to forego this, to furnish either their ego or yours (or both) is commendable, however.

protastus 3y ago
I believe the idea is that these individuals are expected to develop themselves through a combination of self-awareness, autonomy, ambition and an environment that promotes growth. Executives are expected to be mature enough to not need hand holding.
- marcinzm 3y ago
  As I see it if you don't have the self-awareness and feedback gathering skills to understand the things that aren't going well then no amount of "professional development" will help you succeed at a high impact executive role. The CEOs job in that case isn't to fix that but to fire you and then reflect on why they made such a bad hire.
DiggyJohnson 3y ago
This seems like an abuse of the word need. Most of “professional development” is self-actualized, and a product of experience, ability, and achievement on the job. I think explicit PD makes sense at a big corporation or even a medium sized firm, but not in a startup environment where every second counts.
rmk 3y ago
The idea is that Professional Development should be sought elsewhere, not from the CEO. That's not the same as 'no one needs professional development'. If you do not do Professional Development, and make this clear to your hires whom you expect to be pretty good at their job functions already, I do not see how it should be treated as cultivating yes-men. 'I don't do Professional Development' is also not the same as 'I can't take feedback or let someone call a spade a spade'.
mrcwinn 3y ago
Eh, maybe, or maybe you just don’t know what you’re talking about. Your reply is quite a reach on the presumption spectrum! The culture we needed in that moment was one of high standards, of directness and honesty, of pressure to do the best work. My message fit the necessary culture, and the outcome was exactly the team I had hoped to shape. I still remain friends with these folks to this day. We were hardly self-congratulatory; quite the opposite, we were completely without ego and laser-focused on doing right by the company and our teams, and I’m proud to this day of how we ran things.
- kjs3 3y ago
  we were completely without ego When did that change for you?
marcinzm 3y ago
> Otherwise you claim omnicience. No, he simply claims the team was already competent enough to execute at the level required and without egos weighting them down.

by bloqs 3y ago

protastus 3y ago

I believe the idea is that these individuals are expected to develop themselves through a combination of self-awareness, autonomy, ambition and an environment that promotes growth. Executives are expected to be mature enough to not need hand holding.

marcinzm 3y ago
As I see it if you don't have the self-awareness and feedback gathering skills to understand the things that aren't going well then no amount of "professional development" will help you succeed at a high impact executive role. The CEOs job in that case isn't to fix that but to fire you and then reflect on why they made such a bad hire.

DiggyJohnson 3y ago

This seems like an abuse of the word need. Most of “professional development” is self-actualized, and a product of experience, ability, and achievement on the job. I think explicit PD makes sense at a big corporation or even a medium sized firm, but not in a startup environment where every second counts.

rmk 3y ago

The idea is that Professional Development should be sought elsewhere, not from the CEO. That's not the same as 'no one needs professional development'. If you do not do Professional Development, and make this clear to your hires whom you expect to be pretty good at their job functions already, I do not see how it should be treated as cultivating yes-men. 'I don't do Professional Development' is also not the same as 'I can't take feedback or let someone call a spade a spade'.

mrcwinn 3y ago

Eh, maybe, or maybe you just don’t know what you’re talking about. Your reply is quite a reach on the presumption spectrum! The culture we needed in that moment was one of high standards, of directness and honesty, of pressure to do the best work. My message fit the necessary culture, and the outcome was exactly the team I had hoped to shape. I still remain friends with these folks to this day. We were hardly self-congratulatory; quite the opposite, we were completely without ego and laser-focused on doing right by the company and our teams, and I’m proud to this day of how we ran things.

kjs3 3y ago
we were completely without ego When did that change for you?

marcinzm 3y ago

> Otherwise you claim omnicience. No, he simply claims the team was already competent enough to execute at the level required and without egos weighting them down.