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Managers - We Know Nothing about Our Teams (brodzinski.com)
13 points by carusen on June 18, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



If you are so stressed out that someone on your team will leave, then you're not doing an adequate job of eliminating single points of failure.


I recognized this would be inflammatory and should have qualified that it doesn't scale downward well and I know this is a startup-focused community. In larger teams, and my own case -- directing a group of 60 -- I firmly believe this to be true.




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