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The problem is that "move fast and break things" kind of people are terrible at that kind of work. I was in car sales and was top 0.1% nationwide at it. Eventu
by talldatethrow 2y ago
The problem is that "move fast and break things" kind of people are terrible at that kind of work.
I was in car sales and was top 0.1% nationwide at it. Eventually I moved into management. And while sales for the dealership as a whole went up considerably, paperwork became a nightmare. The office lady's were at their breaking point after 6 months and wrote to the owner that in their 30 years of managing the dealership back office, they had never seen such bad paperwork processes.
Sometimes the people good at driving things forward are terrible at cleaning up after themselves.
- sturza 2y agoPeter principle?
- talldatethrow 2y agoIn a way, sure. In reality it's just joining of two jobs that shouldn't be joined. I was great at sales, and became a sales manager thus sales for the whole team went up considerably. I had guys twice my age coming to me thanking me for helping them earn more than they ever had in their sales career. Why someone thought it made sense to task me with managing the sale of 150 cars a month, helping 10+ salespeople close deals AND random bs dealer paperwork not at all related to sales I will never understand. But that's what the industry does. Usually average sales people are promoted to sales manager, so they don't focus on helping salespeople that much, and instead enjoy the random paperwork associated with the position. I wasn't willing to hurt sales of the team in order to have time to do paperwork, so I let all the paperwork slip. Other people let the sales slip so paperwork stayed correct.