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The bigger problem was deadwood employees, but deadwood projects and middle-managers who built out their fiefdoms. The smarter approach would have been to do a
by jacobr1 3y ago
The bigger problem was deadwood employees, but deadwood projects and middle-managers who built out their fiefdoms. The smarter approach would have been to do a better job moving around the best employees in more comprehensive reorg. But that is very difficult to execute well.
- jvanderbot 3y agoThis always seems to be a worse problem than IC performance. Managers have power to remove ICs. But nobody really has a lot of power against politically strong dead weight projects.
- milesvp 3y agoFun story. I worked with a guy who had a habit of killing any project he was on. Guy was fantastic at certain feel good maneuvers that had a tendency to suck all forward momentum and enthusiasm. He was a nice guy, and it was clear he had positive intent. I would unequivocally hire this guy if I was a C-suite and place him on any project I couldn’t kill but wanted to stall out.