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>Not Meta but at Amazon I always felt like war rooms are a place for some leader to scream at you and not much else. It is for the some "leader". The vast larg
by nine_zeros 2y ago
>Not Meta but at Amazon I always felt like war rooms are a place for some leader to scream at you and not much else.
It is for the some "leader". The vast large tech industry is filled with phony leaders who don't understand how the job is done and what makes the doers tick.
But they occupy the place of "leadership". They must be seen as doing something. So they are doing the something that they can - scream at people in a locked room.
If they could actually solve technical problems or talk to their bosses like a real engineering leader, they would. But they literally are incapable of doing so.
So war rooms and BS performative art it is.
- bloomingkales 2y agoThe role of a leader is an age old role. When someone is thrown into leadership, I do believe a lot of adrenaline kicks in. You begin acting as if you are a leader similar to how a parent has parent senses and will run into a street to save any kid from a car (poor example, any human should, but hopefully you get my point). I think what you get in a war room is that primal "phenomena" of "oh shit I'm the leader now". You have to weather the primal emotions, and get a cool head back on to fulfill the leadership role. If it's your first time, then yeah, you will probably handle it like a dick (or twat). You gotta take on an ancient role with humility.
- varelse 2y ago[dead]
- teeray 2y ago> It is for the some "leader". Exactly. It’s so the leader can ask “do we have an update?” every 10 minutes when nothing has changed.