I personally felt it was out of touch from what us employees really feel. Every manager has over 30 people they manage now, and JG acting like that's unheard of is troubling to say the least.
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And frankly, who cares?
Anyone catch JG's walkback email of what he meant to say?
They monitor this site, no doubt about it.
I bet he’s on a sugaring website somewhere.
It's not hard to keep your churn under 4% when you lay off huge swaths of your workforce every 3-5 years.
“ Workplace is filled with nothing but virtue signaling posts, from people looking to get noticed for being "team players".
I recently heard the term “toxic positivity”. Seems to apply well here.
People imagine JG reading their candid feedback and then typically choose to pull their punches.
It looks like this did happen this year. The silence on the survey is deafening. The less they talk about it the more you know that no punches were pulled in the responses.
The SAFe version of Agile has created horrible levels of complexity made worse by the fact that all sides are new and confused about the process. Customers don't know the model and ask legit questions, and practitioners don't know the correct answers and mismanage expectations.
At the heart of the matter is that no matter what your function is, Boston Consulting Group has bungled it for the past 5+ years. BCG is not a friend of oil and has an agenda to speed our destruction.
With recent publications titled "The Next Oil Bo-m Is Coming--and It Could Be the Last" they are working against the objectives we are paying them top $$$ for.
I enjoyed the TH. Get over it.
One of the big problems is that the pipelines of feedback executive management has created are all biased AF. As well intended as the employee survey is...the feedback is skewed to what people think management wants to hear. Workplace is filled with nothing but virtue signaling posts, from people looking to get noticed for being "team players". Workday feedback will trend toward being mostly positive because people are looking for the favor to be returned, or don't want to rock the boat.
You can't both push "One Team / Get With the Program" and also make people REALLY feel safe to offer constructive and candid feedback on things that aren't working; especially when the things that are broken are the product of executive & upper management.
How long until he realizes that all this agile bullish!t just created another layer of complexity and useless roles that he thought he was eliminating? Everything is so much cheaper and faster...
JG and upper management are not listening and just don't really care. Morale is really bad and attrition is accelerating. Management has no idea the damage they are doing to the company by putting their head in the sand and blaming others like the employees for all the issues.
Managers? We’re all part of a dynamic self organizing team of teams deftly switching from strategic priority to strategic priority, adding maximum value, and having fun doing it.
Pollen: What is management going to do to address low morale?
JG: I hear that you want me to discuss morale, you victim-mentality peon, so allow me to grab my hydrogen p-m-poms so I can cheerlead for this alternative energy flavor-of-the-month.