Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
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Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
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#2Once you have people in your organization, you can manipulate the internal economy of favors and perks in order to increase your ability to control their behavior.
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#3This is why managers need a high level of emotional intelligence, the ability to empathize and quickly place themselves in the position of others. Without those three qualities management is ill equipped to handle these kinds of things sensibly.
Sadly the above traits are more deemed leadership qualities rather than management qualities and so often missing in management.
Leadership skills are far harder to teach than management skills and also rarer in the population than the number it management roles there are to fill.
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#4Founders should keep this in mind anytime they are negotiating contract terms with a corporation also. There is no such thing as a "standard" contract and almost all "mandatory" clauses are not actually mandatory. This also applies to real estate transactions and almost any other high stakes negotiating. Standard and mandatory are terms used to trick inexperienced or less powerful people/entities into agreeing to terms more favorable to an opponent.
None of this means you can necessarily axe all the requirements though. It entirely depends on your negotiating position. If a company wants to work with you badly enough they'll pay their lawyer the $500 hourly to modify the contract or approve your changes.
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#5I feel that as organization size increases, individual responsibility decreases.
At some point there’s a limit where individuals become responsible for nothing and everything is a policy or process. It would be interesting to try to study or quantify this with different orgs and roles.
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#6If i pay an external $1000 per day and that price doesn't change when they are in my office or at home, i would put them in my office for obvious security risks.
If corona means i can't get my work done, i have a new risk.
Security risk for external consultants having full access at their home vs. no one can work -> i might choose the externals giving access.
Its not imaginary.
Re: Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
#7I feel that as organization size increases, individual responsibility decreases. At some point there’s a limit where individuals become responsible for nothing and everything is a policy or process. It would be interesting to try to study or quantify this with different orgs and roles.
Funny enough i though so as well but discovered quite quickly that without this stuff, a lot of people are doing shit.
Do i think someone needs to tell me not to put every shitty tool on my work laptop which has a corp certificate? Access to vpn and corp network? With access to HyperScalers?
No.
What do my collegues? Everything. Oh there is a nice new shiny tool and it sends metrics to an external service, lets try this out...
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#8If i pay an external $1000 per day and that price doesn't change when they are in my office or at home, i would put them in my office for obvious security risks. If corona means i can't get my work done, i have a new risk. Security risk for external consultants having full access at their home vs. no one can work -> i might choose the externals giving access. Its not imaginary.
Pretty sure my home is more secure than your office. Literally no one wanders in here and tries to steal corporate secrets / install malware. It happens all the time in actual offices, and it's surprisingly easy to gain access to the most "secure" offices.
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#9This is why managers need a high level of emotional intelligence, the ability to empathize and quickly place themselves in the position of others. Without those three qualities management is ill equipped to handle these kinds of things sensibly. Sadly the above traits are more deemed leadership qualities rather than management qualities and so often missing in management. Leadership skills are far harder to teach tha…
I have also personally witnessed a corporation insisting that I learn exclusively management practices in a multi-session Leadership Education and 'selling' it to me as "leadership".
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#10This is why managers need a high level of emotional intelligence, the ability to empathize and quickly place themselves in the position of others. Without those three qualities management is ill equipped to handle these kinds of things sensibly. Sadly the above traits are more deemed leadership qualities rather than management qualities and so often missing in management. Leadership skills are far harder to teach tha…
To add to that, if you have a senior IC with leadership skills and a manager without, the senior IC won't last long, either through rage quitting or slow-walking out the door by the manager who's threatened by the senior IC.