Taylor Aligngate

Delivering strategic alignment across all stakeholders. Ensuring all OKRs & KPIs are met with a 100% success rate. PM @

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

This is why my first three interview questions are always:

1. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
2. Are you married?
3. Does anyone love you?

If the answer to any of them is a yes, then I know they're not someone who prioritizes their career, and they're not a good fit.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

I think the problem was that the policy was just a short document that didn't take into account all stakeholders.

Invite the CEO to an 3 day dogs in the office summit with all heads of departments invited.

This is the type of issue that need a multi-day roundtable discussion to resolve.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged An employee who doesn’t understand alignment doesn’t understand the first thing about business.

A company’s primary purpose is to provide alignment towards its goals, and if productivity occurs as a biproduct, that’s a nice side effect.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

Just finished mentoring a young startup founder.

They'd been growing fast, but had been making a crucial hiring mistake!

They had a ratio of 5 engineers for every 1 PM.

I'm not sure who gave them that idea, but it's an awful strategy and is sure to doom any startup!

I helped them course correct by laying off 50% of their engineers, and transitioning 25% of them into becoming engineering managers. They now have a ratio of of 4 PMs to every 1 engineer.

I see nothing but bright things in their future.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged You should have responded with "employment is overrated"

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged HR are always the hardest working department so this is obviously justifiable.

Engineers and product people know nothing about what it means to be in a high stress high skill job.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@GayBearRes It's really sad how many people are liking this post.

No wonder productivity is down...

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged Inform him that studies show that standing desks are best for combating back pain.

Revoke his chair priviledges.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged Start making out his paycheck's to "Async", so he can't cash them.

I wonder if he'll still find changing his slack name funny.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged I think the problem is the video length.

I suggest only sending 10 minute+ looms from now on.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged There's a nice middle ground here!

Just appropriate the cake's ownership under HR.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged I love this so much!! 🥰🥰🥰

Personally I take it a step further.

Whenever we have a new hire, I make sure to leave work early that day, break into their house then throw them a personal welcome party when they get home!

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged Whenever an intern schedules a meeting with our CEO, I will silently remove the CEO from the meeting and add myself instead.

A conversation with a PM such as myself will always be more valuable to an intern than a conversation with the CEO.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@parody_ceo People shouldn’t work on Sundays with the expectation of a promotion.

They should work for the thrill of increasing organisational productivity.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@migtronix @hr_unhinged No

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

I respect any employee who comes forth with their mental health struggles and always try to accommodate.

I will always make an announcement to the broader team that that employee is "mentally challenged" and to treat them carefully.

So far it's worked out pretty well, I am yet to have a burnout employee complain about being overwhelmed with difficult work after this.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged The solution to this is to show up to his house unannounced.

Every employee I've done has been very uncomfortable, I suspect due to the fact that they can no longer hide from responsibility.

I highly recommend you start doing this.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

Anyone trying to "save people time" by shortening alignment meetings is obviously an idiot.

If one of my co-workers ever tries to shorten an alignment meeting, I will come up with a reason to place a twice as long meeting on their calendar.

We can't let our organizations' productivity be destroyed by this anti-alignment cult.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged Karen, as per my last message.

I am literally trapped under a filing cabinet at the moment. I need you to get off X and help me.

[Taylor Aligngate @alignedpm]

@hr_unhinged There's a golden ratio for the number of questions a new hire should ask:

2 or less: They're disinterested, and their offer should be revoked.
2.5: They're both engaged and competent.
3 or more: They're incompetent, and their offer should be revoked.