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All of this feels like a side effect of a low trust environment. I respect the author's creativity, but the environment described sounds highly dysfunctional. I
by thefaux 2y ago
All of this feels like a side effect of a low trust environment. I respect the author's creativity, but the environment described sounds highly dysfunctional. In my opinion, if the ceo is demanding an arbitrary metric from his subordinate without being able to articulate what they are looking for sufficiently that the subordinate has to invent a made up number just to justify their existence, that sounds like poor leadership to me. Of course, this is only based on the author's side and perhaps I'd feel differently if I heard the other side.
- bennyelv 2y agoIt is (source: I work in an org like this), but your aim as a leader, the VP in this case, is to do whatever is necessary to enable your team to succeed, given the constraints that exist. Ineffective company operation and other people’s hangups and shortcomings are constraints. Does the nirvana where you are never limited by the ineffective operation of others exist anywhere? Some companies are better, some are worse, but all of them are collections of people with limitations at the end of the day!