Metadata
- Author: Mataroa
- Full Title:: Your Organization Probably Doesn’t Want To Improve Things
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas, Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas,
- URL:: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/your-organization-probably-doesnt-want-to-improve-things/
- Finished date:: 2023-11-25
Highlights
concept called the honne-tatemae divide, which are Japanese concepts related to the true feelings of an individual and the front they present in public (View Highlight)
I have never met a single manager at any large company that has not said they want to be data driven. I have also never seen a single one of them take any steps that could actually move them in this direction. (View Highlight)
it is so simple to use that it is not inconceivable to me that you could actually train a monkey to make a bar chart with the correct application of positive reinforcement and peanuts. (View Highlight)
Management has no choice but to say that they want to be data driven. It’s not like they can just come out and say that it’s all fucked - so they say the only thing that is available. We are going through a “digital transformation”, and that is why all of these efforts don’t generate any revenue and drive staff to misery. It will be better once this current initiative successfully completes, even though we have never demonstrated the ability to successfully complete a similar initiative at any point in the past. (View Highlight)
In professional settings, approximately all of my time goes into solving problems introduced by people that are just indescribably bad. (View Highlight)
Is there any chance a team with people like that is going to produce good results? Obviously not. Do most teams at large organizations have at least one person like that? Sweet merciful Christ, in both my first, second, and perhaps even third-hand experience, whatever that means, it’s possible that half of all teams consist entirely of that person. (View Highlight)
Can my manager keep their job if they honestly say “There is no chance this team will ever hit its objectives”? Fuck no, if they did that they’d be gone, so the system is constantly selecting for people that are either too dumb to realize it’s hopeless, too perversely incentivized to be honest, or too deep into despair to admit to themselves it is hopeless. (View Highlight)
the person I am speaking to has intelligence, integrity, and has come to terms with the fact that large organizations are inherently dysfunctional, which happens rarely. (View Highlight)