9/ Today, you're likely to have 10-13 jobs/3-4 careers in a lifetime. And 4-5 project-level exit opportunities within each job.
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10/ We've gone from 0.3 exits/lifetime to something like 30-40. Each exit "solves" an impossible management problem and improves things.
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11/ Managers are really stewards of pent-up emotional baggage and containers of pending explosions between stress-relieving exit events
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12/ Unfortunately, the exit option is MOST available to the MOST critical linchpin people with high demand elsewhere
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13/ This means exits often "solves" a critical people-problem by creating a new "talent" problem. Deadwood that won't be missed won't leave.
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14/ But net, this exit-centric way of optimizing net allocation of people at all levels from workgroup to national economy is a good thing
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15/ One reason I have an issue with the "mercenary versus missionary" ideological schism in tech is that it tries to force "local" solutions
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16/ "The free market allocates things efficiently","labor immobility through cargo-cult loyalty norms/missions is a good thing"
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@davealevine@vgr Absolutely, and Wilson and Simon make this clear - but it doesn't *solve* what is discussed, it alleviates it.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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