Mark Zuckerberg upping performance goals to get rid of employees
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It reminds me of someone who wants to split up with a partner but hasn’t got the cojones to do it. Instead, they just start behaving terribly in the hope that they get dumped first.
It’s messy, disrespectful, takes longer than just being up front, and ends up at the same point anyway.
One thing that has interested me is that my friends are half Chinese nationals who just quietly plod along with no interest in their FAANG jobs, and half highly motivated Westerners who love to talk shop. During the last 2 big meltdowns in 2000 and 2008 no one in either group was affected.
If people aren’t working with a sense of urgency as BAU that a management failure?
The market and the economy changed, rather than the people, so to turn on your people and try to encourage them out the door is cynical.
Not claiming here that I admire Zuckerberg. Not even close. I was just addressing a very specific and unfortunate circumstance.
If you're doing successfully as a business, you don't need hair on fire urgency all the time. The fact management theory seems to encourage wringing every last drop out of people by setting up a Welchian press is more a consequence of one particular generation's psychotic approach to worker relations.
Furthermore, on average, your business should be successful with majorly average performers. No business should be a hot house flower that requires the creme-de-la-creme just to get by. Self-sustaining businesses with strong product market fit practically run themselves.
The normalization of crunch and "grinding" of labor of the past few decades has been one of the most pathological social dynamics I've been alive to see.
I'm contrasting to Amazon which values leadership and has more businesses than one can even imagine.
If the financial markets collapse entirely, then my retirement will end and I'd rather have to fall back to Amazon.