> he exaggerates what Verily can deliver, launches big projects on a whim, and rashly diverts resources from prior commitments to the next hot idea that might bring in revenue. This has led to what they describe as difficult meetings with business partners, and resignations by demoralized engineers and scientists in the face of seemingly impossible demands.
Someone has already made the comparison to boston dynamics, but doesn't this also sound just like the recent problems within dropcam/nest?
Does anybody have a counterexample of somebody with this personality leading a team to greatness?
It feels like a personality type like this is mentioned more often than not when my technical friends leave companies. Somebody has to frame the memo that guys like this (they're always guys) will kill your org.
Gini Rometty, Ellen Pao, Meg Whitman, and Carly Fiorina don't exactly have stellar reputations either.
I don't think it's a guy thing - I think it's a corporate culture thing.
You get failure and disaster whenever you have overpaid and undertalented management. Gender isn't particularly relevant.
You especially get failure and disaster when upper management runs a corporation as its own personal cash cow and makes decisions for reasons of self-promotion, self-image, or plain greed, instead of for sound growth-oriented reasons - never mind employee welfare.
Someone has already made the comparison to boston dynamics, but doesn't this also sound just like the recent problems within dropcam/nest?
Does anybody have a counterexample of somebody with this personality leading a team to greatness?
It feels like a personality type like this is mentioned more often than not when my technical friends leave companies. Somebody has to frame the memo that guys like this (they're always guys) will kill your org.