Be honest, how many of the corporate initiatives you’ve been asked to work on are pointless? Reflecting back on the last few years, I’m embarrassed at the amount of work I’ve put into corporate initiatives that are either completely pointless, or totally ineffective. Most of these have either been quietly abandoned or performatively kept alive. For me, it’s nearly all of them. And frankly, it’s affects how I approach current initiatives. I do as I’m told, but don’t really care about the actual quality, since I know it’ll be dead in 12-18 months any way.
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The systems imposed upon SCM such as GEP are embarrassingly hopeless.
Working in data science, probably around 90% go nowhere.
Product owner claims massive success nonetheless.
Was thinking the same thing when working on my talent card. Not much really made an impact in the end, but was fun working with good people.
Guess gaming is the same, but with no pay.
For me, it’s probably about 85%, maybe 90%.
With almost all of my projects, I do them the hard way, or a roundabout way, so I learn something new. It’s sad.