90% of project management is simply accepting being the person who cares the most. Being too cool to visibly care is a minor liability for an individual contributor but a guaranteed project killer in a manager. Once the PM visibly doesn’t care, everyone else checks out.
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Two orientations
1. Angry that quality isn’t good enough
2. Worried what people will think
First one better to work with but 2 can work too
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100%. I thoroughly vet our employees for passion. If they don’t give a damn, we do not hire. Sometimes this is difficult without working with them.
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I’ve grown more and more depressed over the years as I learn just how many different situations involve this exact dynamic as a Mexican standoff of “who cares the most in this situation?”
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