"Learn the difference between 'helping' and being 'helpy'"
~ @wendynather at #BSidesSEA
(If all you are doing is pointing at things and saying "look I found all these problems" you're not helping, you're being helpy... Being "helpy" allows you to claim that you're part of the process and a valuable part of the team and it makes you visible in meetings but doesn't actually improve anything.)
I remember one CEO who used to get cranky at people who brought him problems instead of solutions.
Which depends on the nature of the problem, and the pay level of the person ringing the alarm. If someone pays me to fix a set of problems, not just describe them, then yeah it's not much point being "helpy" instead of delivering on my role.
@ewen @deviantollam @wendynather It is a toxic leadership trait to require someone highlighting a problem to bring the solution, or to own solving it.
All this does is incentivize staying quiet.
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