S**t Umbrella – Zach Perret
Big companies are a shitstorm of processes, questions, meetings, requests, favors, offsites, social events, and more. Each of these requests-for-time seem innocent enough, and the individual making…
Big companies are a shitstorm of processes, questions, meetings, requests, favors, offsites, social events, and more. Each of these requests-for-time seem innocent enough, and the individual making the request is certainly well-intentioned. But the volume of these requests can leave our teams buried in mounds of shit. The job of a manager is to be a shit umbrella. The job of a manager-of-managers is to be a bigger shit umbrella. And the job of an employee is to don a shit-proof jacket, and find a way to get your work done. What do you mean by shit? For the sake of this analogy, shit is…
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