randsHumans do their best work when they feel safe and supported. There is a contingent of humans who believe they do their best work when the stakes are high, everyone is yelling, and the deadline is imminent. This is called “surviving,” and while survival is fun, it’s not good work.
recursive 🏳️🌈@rands too early for me to be experiencing this much self-awareness
MikeStok@rands My experience is that merely surviving is a grind. Flourishing might be fun though.
I often think of Peopleware in situations like this, maybe this quote:
“People under time pressure don’t work better—they just work faster.
In order to work faster, they may have to sacrifice the quality of the product and of their own work experience.”
Excerpt From
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Third Edition by Tom DeMarco
Paul Hoffman@rands There is a contingent of bosses who believe **others** do their best work when the stakes are high, everyone is yelling, and the deadline is imminent, and thus they create that environment for their workers. Then "it's not good work" abounds.
𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤and when the project inevitably gets behind schedule, the way to get it back on track is to call more meetings. Lots more in-person meetings.