Macrobius on Nostr: Let me see if I can explain it like this ... Back in the 2010s I worked for a ...
Let me see if I can explain it like this ... Back in the 2010s I worked for a financial institution (financial equities) -- think, a startup similar to E*Trade -- that was bought by a bank that was bot by a well-known Credit Card company that used to run ads involving Visigoths.
So of course, we techs were asked to vet possible future hires and one guy who came our way was a friend of someone on the 'team' (OK, points for knowing how the Hell to network, just out of the box). I gave my thumbs up and we hired him to be a simple 'manual test executor' which is hardly a difficult position, and also he seemed IRL like a swell guy. I tend not to give a damn about formal credentials anyway (many such stories), but the decision to hire was unanimous.
Over the years, later, I learned a few things about him:
1. He was a D&D dungeon master of a group that had been meeting for *years*
2. He had Coast Guard experience, and one of his stories was the time his boat did a drug interdiction, obviously outgunned at the small arms level, but the captain told the drug lord 'we are going to board you and if you pull anything we will sink you'. Of course, the Captain's crew was nervous as Hell but they did their job. So... steady man, obeys captain at full risk to himself, and serves honourably.
I worked there until about the runup to the 2016 election, and I relealised THIS IS WHAT MANAGMENT MATERIAL LOOKS LIKE. (Of course I told him this and 'protected him' as if he needed that, since he outlived me in that crazy org).
Getting other people to work in a Faustian setting -- that is to show up, do their jobs, and getting them to 'play the game' year after year. It just doesn't get anymore management (as opposed to C-Level leadership, which is different) than that. The man was a born Centurion at least. Possibly under fire and at RISK to their own lives, implicit if not near certain. Some men can do this, some cannot. Know the difference, when hiring managers, C-level.
'Work' these days is a game. As a dungeonmaster ('manager' 'PM' whatever), you need to 'mix it up' enough to keep people INTERESTED in the Game, but to understand how to create a TEAM. Moreover, a TEAM that shows up every day, when they DON'T HAVE TO, and also a manager knows enough about team dynamics and motivation to keep the game going for YEARS. This is what FREEDOM looks like. Arbeit macht frei.
This is what a Proven Track Record looks like, gents. Boats. Teams. Men. Ludimagister ('Master of the Game'... of Mars).
The TV version of this is the 'IT Crowd' where the two geeks entertain some big wigs form out of town (who were expecting sex and a knight on the town) but in fact ended up playing D&D with the IT guys. I'll add a link if I can find it.[1]
[1]: this will get you into the ball park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jyVXwonTA
Democrats paying attention yet? #crustr
https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/can-the-us-democratic-party-pull-itself-together.1627/#post-16429
So of course, we techs were asked to vet possible future hires and one guy who came our way was a friend of someone on the 'team' (OK, points for knowing how the Hell to network, just out of the box). I gave my thumbs up and we hired him to be a simple 'manual test executor' which is hardly a difficult position, and also he seemed IRL like a swell guy. I tend not to give a damn about formal credentials anyway (many such stories), but the decision to hire was unanimous.
Over the years, later, I learned a few things about him:
1. He was a D&D dungeon master of a group that had been meeting for *years*
2. He had Coast Guard experience, and one of his stories was the time his boat did a drug interdiction, obviously outgunned at the small arms level, but the captain told the drug lord 'we are going to board you and if you pull anything we will sink you'. Of course, the Captain's crew was nervous as Hell but they did their job. So... steady man, obeys captain at full risk to himself, and serves honourably.
I worked there until about the runup to the 2016 election, and I relealised THIS IS WHAT MANAGMENT MATERIAL LOOKS LIKE. (Of course I told him this and 'protected him' as if he needed that, since he outlived me in that crazy org).
Getting other people to work in a Faustian setting -- that is to show up, do their jobs, and getting them to 'play the game' year after year. It just doesn't get anymore management (as opposed to C-Level leadership, which is different) than that. The man was a born Centurion at least. Possibly under fire and at RISK to their own lives, implicit if not near certain. Some men can do this, some cannot. Know the difference, when hiring managers, C-level.
'Work' these days is a game. As a dungeonmaster ('manager' 'PM' whatever), you need to 'mix it up' enough to keep people INTERESTED in the Game, but to understand how to create a TEAM. Moreover, a TEAM that shows up every day, when they DON'T HAVE TO, and also a manager knows enough about team dynamics and motivation to keep the game going for YEARS. This is what FREEDOM looks like. Arbeit macht frei.
This is what a Proven Track Record looks like, gents. Boats. Teams. Men. Ludimagister ('Master of the Game'... of Mars).
The TV version of this is the 'IT Crowd' where the two geeks entertain some big wigs form out of town (who were expecting sex and a knight on the town) but in fact ended up playing D&D with the IT guys. I'll add a link if I can find it.[1]
[1]: this will get you into the ball park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jyVXwonTA
Democrats paying attention yet? #crustr
https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/can-the-us-democratic-party-pull-itself-together.1627/#post-16429