These problems have good managerial/leadership solutions *so long as the jobs are not bullshit jobs* If they are bullshit jobs. There’s no solution. If they aren’t both are easy. Real recognize real. Output quality shows. Trusted bonds form that accommodate unpoliced speech.
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Coda: I’ll turn 46 this year. I finally have enough experience across enough gigs that I’m fairly confident about my instincts on this stuff. Unfortunately I also have enough experience to not want to touch this stuff with a 10-foot pole.
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This is not what I was hoping my midlife career would be about. In 2011 the plan was to gradually do less consulting and more fun writing and making more money with less work based on a couple of decades of experience with “normal and fun” business problems.
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I now charge about 3x per hour as I did when I first started out. And I think I add more than 3x as much value per hour — if I’m having fun. Big if. That if is increasingly not true in culture-war consulting. The years of experience don’t matter if you dislike the work.
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Fingers crossed that the business world sees this looming and acts to steer it down a better path. Otherwise my next 4 years will be increasingly miserable, and my 50s, which I’d hoped would be 3-4 hours lucrative consulting and 30-40 hours fun writing, will be very different.
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jesus, gonna bookmark this thread and revisit it later tonight.
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+1. This is good. Could be a book.
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By "business world" it sounds like you mean the "Enterprise" world, in which case... so what? Agile companies with less bullshit have been slaughtering the low hanging fruit of stupid companies for a while now, so what changes when it reaches newer and bigger industries?
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