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How sad is it that this article needs to exist? It boils down to one final sentence: "The Takeaway: If you create a company that encourages people to lead full
by blindhippo 13y ago
How sad is it that this article needs to exist?
It boils down to one final sentence: "The Takeaway: If you create a company that encourages people to lead full lives, you can land a full roster of talent."
Or translated: treat people as... PEOPLE and you can hire people!
Are management drones really that incompetent that they need this explained to them? (rhetorical - clearly the answer is yes)
- potatolicious 13y agoIt's unfair to blame this on management drones - this propensity for mindless overwork is a key component of geek culture. We brought this upon ourselves, in many ways, though unscrupulous companies certainly have taken advantage of it. How many other fields and subcultures glorify and celebrate caffeine-fueled binges and lack of sleep? How many subcultures form competitions around how horribly you can abuse your body for nerd points? Hell, as a nerdy kid growing up, how many of your fellow nerds shunned you for daring to branch out and do non-nerdy things on the side? For a bunch of ostracized people we sure as hell do a lot of it on our own. This translates not just to big companies but to founders too. There is a pernicious perception that if you're not mindlessly devoted at all hours of the day (waking or otherwise) to your startup/work that you are unworthy. The geek subculture has never really known moderation. It's sad that this article needs to exist, but bad management is really only the surface. This goes pretty deep.