Metadata
- Author: Pedram from Data Based
- Full Title:: It’s Not Enough to Be Right
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Finished date:: 2024-12-05
Highlights
As organizations grow in complexity, the needs of the organization aren’t that people be right. If you hire well, many people may be right about the same thing. The hard problem of a business is affecting change, and the bigger the organization, the harder it is to affect that change. (View Highlight)
This—being effective—is what separates a senior engineer from a lead or staff. It is the reason that being a lead, a staff, or a manager is hard. It is hard to affect change in organizations. You are fighting competing interests and priorities, varying levels of optimism and engagement, difficult personalities and entitlements. Even something as fundamental as communication is hard and only getting harder with remote and hybrid work. (View Highlight)