duncanriach

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by duncanriach 8y ago
Any knowledge or skillset can be misunderstood and/or misapplied. I'm doing my best to express my understanding, which may, of course, be completely wrong. I've also been doing my best to understand this stuff, which included
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by duncanriach 8y ago
Wow. Thank you. In hindsight, I think I did do an impressive amount of high-quality work. After getting a lot more experience, I realized that what I did was impressive, even though at the time, and for a while afterward, I felt that I wa
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by duncanriach 8y ago
It seems to me that the smarter someone attempts to appear the less smart they truly are. True intelligence appears as clarity.
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by duncanriach 8y ago
Great idea. I'm also wondering if this was actually an article about narcissism very poorly disguised as an article about deadlines.
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by duncanriach 8y ago
I always think I'm doing a shit job and not getting anywhere near enough done. However, I always seem to get rated as a top contributor (which surprises me). In this example, my manager told me that he had obtained information that a t
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by duncanriach 8y ago
... plus nearly everything else I know about leadership.
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by duncanriach 8y ago
In case you missed it, the number one thing I know about leadership is: root-out and fire narcissists. It's the most effective thing you can do to turbocharge your company. FYI, one of the ways you can spot a narcissist is by how they
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by duncanriach 8y ago
Correction: there was one small bug that was hard to avoid but relatively easy to fix. And in terms of interaction with my manager: I did send him a weekly report on what I had done each week. But he trusted me too much, or was way too busy
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by duncanriach 8y ago
It's just a date. Ship something by this date. I would suggest shipping more than once before this date. I would not call that a deadline in the normal sense that it's used. Of course, dates should be used as part of the planning
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by duncanriach 8y ago
You can ship a car with an engine that goes 0-60 in 10 seconds. Then you can ship the next car with an engine that does it in 7. If you try to develop an exact thing by an exact date, you're bound to either ship something that's b
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by duncanriach 8y ago
I'm not only trained as a clinical psychologist. I also have 14+ of experience as a professional engineer and a manager/leader, with an MS in electrical engineering. So I'm viewing this as someone who worked an individual con
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by duncanriach 8y ago
Yeah, I think that there is a deep cultural bias against actually digging in and looking at human problems, like work, from a human-centric perspective. There's a presupposition that most people hold that management is about control. T
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by duncanriach 8y ago
I agree. But sometimes dates for delivery of something do need to be set. That approach should be very selectively used, with an understanding that it's not a demand that X is done by Y, but that something will be shipped on Y. Then, t
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by duncanriach 8y ago
Narcissistic employees are one of the main causes of loss of employee motivation. Deadlines are a highly ineffective mechanism that attempts, unsuccessfully, to motivate employees (by controlling them with fear).
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by duncanriach 8y ago
I am the author of the article. To those commenters who write that deadlines are necessary because many, or most, employees are not motivated self-starters, I posit that this is a symptom of poor leadership, originally by their parents. Yes
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