As a Director at Amazon, I repeatedly saw that big tech career incentives basically guarantee cycles of too much growth, and then layoffs. I just had someone email me, and say that they're worried about their career as a development manager.
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@DublinAirport Brutal showing this morning. A Boeing 777 AC2100 from Toronto arrives with over 400 passengers. You disembark it onto the tarmac with ONE set of stairs. 45 minutes later we’re off. Now we’re waiting over 45 mins for bags to turn up. Get your act together! 🤬
I recall you telling me and I thought you were all succumbing to the drink and a case of group-think. Turns out you all had much bigger balls 😜 I also thought this was way more than 10 years ago!
This week 10 years ago was one of the maddest weeks of my life. Eoin, Ken, Murph, Simon & I resigned from our job in radio that we’d had for the previous 7 years. We were told not to come to the office again, our desks would be cleared & our belongings sent to us. (1/10)
Being able to think about nothing but what is right on front of me - the here and now - for an hour. Everything else is forgotten for that hour playing football.
Why can’t we have a central list of coaches contact details for each age group on a central website? Because GDPR. Or at least that is the “excuse” I have heard.
This is a real problem! You have to rely on leaders and sub-leaders in groups and functions communicating decisions downward and funnelling concerns upwards to ensure you don’t end up with massive meetings.
Most people feel there are too many meetings.
However most people also hate the idea that they aren’t being included in important conversations and decisions.
Interesting piece. As an architect I find it very helpful to embed with teams on detail-orientated work. High level strategy should help align detail-orientated work, and detail-orientated work should inform high level strategy. This is a practical approach to achieving that.