Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
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#2> "No one else gets into these situations. It’s always you. If someone had told me that one of my employees was hunting white supremacists with the FBI I wouldn’t have to ask who it was because, of course it’s you. It’s always you. Why is it always you?"
> The way you process risk and handle fear has more impact on what kind of career you have than any other single factor.
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#3Please post the full text, Medium asks for a sign up
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#5Good post. Lots of realness here about the nature of employees and the employed... Also confirms some of my negative beliefs about the government so I love it for validating my biases!
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#6Aww, after all that, we don't get to hear how the episode with the website and the white supremacists ends??
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#7>The end result of this is that it often feels like everyone at the top is maliciously incompetent.
What's really going on is that a torrent of digital change is being unleashed on the world. That change is significantly changing the skills needed by leaders.
I'm not sure if the flood of wildly successful leaders having a technical background is correlation or causation, but I am looking forward to knowing someday.
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#9I am all for leaders taking risks but talking to law enforcement without a lawyer or without contacting HR first (for professional matters) would probably be outside my limits.
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#10> The way you process risk and handle fear has more impact on what kind of career you have than any other single factor.
Depends on how the organisations you are in value risk taking and fear.
If your manager is running from death, your appetite for risk is not a positive.