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That's all worthless if they don't actually have good ideas, though. And I don't believe someone who is all talk actually has good ideas. You have to be rooted
by andrewflnr 2y ago
That's all worthless if they don't actually have good ideas, though. And I don't believe someone who is all talk actually has good ideas. You have to be rooted in good practice.
- jvanderbot 2y agoIf you're free to define "all talk" as "not useful" then yeah - you've created a tautology. All I'm saying is some folks that are awful to work with side by side as technologists are super useful to an org in other places. One person's 'all talk' is another person's 'all walk'.
- andrewflnr 2y agoDo recall that the reference for "all talk" in this conversation was > never wanted to take on advice, always fought on really shady grounds, but he fought everything, almost like it was either his idea of what was on-point or nothing Yes, you can be productive through communication, but if that's the kind of "talk" you want in your C-suite then I don't want to work in any company where you have influence. It's almost like communicating effectively requires detailed knowledge of the real world, knowledge most often and most effectively gained by... doing things.