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Does it? Does it really? Excuse my facetiousness, but I don't think time matters at all for businesses. I don't think I've ever been in a spot where time reall

Does it? Does it really? Excuse my facetiousness, but I don't think time matters at all for businesses. I don't think I've ever been in a spot where time really mattered. It's always been about people's perception of time mattering. And by people I mean upper management. Realistically, if you axed everyone except counsel from the executive team, your business would survive. If you have paying customers, they will continue paying for the product, regardless of whether X or Y feature that customer research (and championed by some goon) says is a !MUST HAVE! The only time time matters is in startups, where you will run out of money until you can find a sucker to give you more (whether that be VCs or customers!).

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
you've never worked for a small to midsized company then.
- financltravsty 3y ago
  I have. And never has the urgency been warranted in retrospect. It's always been a reflection of the anxieties and worries of the CEO/president/whoever is in charge, than it has been reality. It's an unchecked personality disorder at that point; and I want no part of it.
  - PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
    business people need to be able to make decisions and they do that based upon timelines. If you're a small to midsized company these decisions have larger effects on the overall health of the company. I've seen too many instances of technical people abusing business ignorance of technical details. Most of _my_ experience has been business people trying really hard to work with the technical groups, but the technical groups just don't want to be held to any timelines whatsoever. You can't have that in the business world. That doesn't mean all deadlines are hard, but if there isn't some timeline then business decisions may as well be made by throwing darts at the wall.
flappyeagle 3y ago
Time matters for every endeavor because in the end we're all dead. Every single thing I've done at a company, time mattered. Paying customers churn. Competitors come to market with features. Employees get recruited away. All of this happens as time goes by without you doing anything.
esafak 3y ago
Time obviously matters when there are external constraints like the shopping season, or the amount of runway your company has.

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago

you've never worked for a small to midsized company then.

financltravsty 3y ago
I have. And never has the urgency been warranted in retrospect. It's always been a reflection of the anxieties and worries of the CEO/president/whoever is in charge, than it has been reality. It's an unchecked personality disorder at that point; and I want no part of it.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
  business people need to be able to make decisions and they do that based upon timelines. If you're a small to midsized company these decisions have larger effects on the overall health of the company. I've seen too many instances of technical people abusing business ignorance of technical details. Most of _my_ experience has been business people trying really hard to work with the technical groups, but the technical groups just don't want to be held to any timelines whatsoever. You can't have that in the business world. That doesn't mean all deadlines are hard, but if there isn't some timeline then business decisions may as well be made by throwing darts at the wall.

flappyeagle 3y ago

Time matters for every endeavor because in the end we're all dead. Every single thing I've done at a company, time mattered. Paying customers churn. Competitors come to market with features. Employees get recruited away. All of this happens as time goes by without you doing anything.

esafak 3y ago

Time obviously matters when there are external constraints like the shopping season, or the amount of runway your company has.