"Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent."
And regarding managers, one person posits: "Maybe managers leave shortly after mandates ... 'because it’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.'"
To secure their fiefdoms, managers often pitch projects they created that are sometimes referred to as "vanity projects" or "promo projects." These may ultimately contribute zero to a company's top line, but the flashy presentations and demos associated with the projects often lead to a promotion and nice pay bump for the person leading the work.
As a manager you should be open to constructive criticism just as you expect ICs to be. Expecting to only broadcast your criticisms while remaining beyond reproach is setting everyone including yourself up for failure. Take the time to listen.
#women 'must be vocal but not deemed “shrill”. They must be confident, but not perceived as arrogant; empathetic but not so much that it shows weakness; they should smile & be enthusiastic to not appear “threatening” or “hostile” (words rarely used for male counterparts). And they shouldn’t complain...
[But] female executives are more honest, less likely to gloss over difficult things or speak on topics they know little about'!
As the #postoffice#horizon scandal reveals more & more details of appalling behaviour by #management at the PO & #Fujitisu, we now seem to be entering a #windrush phase with the Q. of differing treatment of ethnic minority #postmasters & a suspicion that accusations of #fraud were normalised due to #racist assumptions about the proclivities of particular ethnicities of sub-post-office owners.
Once again, we're going to find that #racism is not a problem the country has banished to history.
#ElonMusk has threatened workers with retaliation if they form #union. "Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting #HumanRights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest #unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start."
Meanwhile in the #book trade, James Daunt's own bookshops & those he controls via the Watertsones group & Barnes and Nobel continue to prosper...
There are two really simple reasons for his success:
He's a bookseller, and has refocussed these chains on books! (To some extent his success also builds on the lockdown-inspired 'rediscovery' of reading books), and;
his #management is decentralised - he trusts branch managers to run a bookshop suitable for their locale.
This may be a story of the problems of (an absence of effective) #whistleblower protections in the #NHS, or it may be a #healthcare example of how rubbish #management in organisations can be corrosive.... but whatever its context this is a pretty from story of bullying & intimidation of someone just trying to reveal a significant problem.
Looked at in combination with what is going out of the #CovidInquiry, its clear as a country we are in some difficulty!
A friend of mine, who is an airline #pilot, asked me why I took a rather harsh stance against #Boeing in their recent "troubles". The short answer is that I loathe their profit-driven #management philosophy.
The long answer is this. #Engineering inevitably affects lives, and engineering disasters kill not by ones and twos but by the thousands. A company who, for almost a century, have been manufacturing aircraft must hold itself to a higher standard than a fly-by-night web development sweatshop, when it comes to processes, especially those that affect safety. But Boeing, for the past 30 or so years, have raised #profits above #safety. This, I detest, as an engineer.
So, I'm not sure if this is cause or effect, but its notable that new longitudinal research suggest, school bullies tend to earn more later in life....
I've remarked on the rubbish management in many British institutions before, so now (taking pay as a rough guide) we can see that bullies somehow are rising to the top & we might expect them to carry on with their school behaviour in the workplace.
Flipboard CEO @mike's life's work has been to make the content of the internet more easily accessible, from his time at Netscape in the 1990s to today. He talks to @scottmonty on the Timeless Leadership podcast about his early days in tech, and Flipboard's latest journey in the fediverse, helping creators move their content beyond walled gardens.
I cannot understate how important it is to have your team involved in the launch of a project they worked on. They should know when launch is happening, receive appreciation. Celebrate. And positive feedback from clients must be passed along to the team.
I've had a pattern in my career of finding out after the fact, when something I built was lunched. Of only hearing about the bugs or next wants. It really, really sucks.