Let's NOT milk our youth
I ran into a junior of mine from long ago. They seem so happy to meet me, they reminded me of how it was back then when I was with them. Those were my glory days. Going further back..I once managed a project, in this my team was composed of neophytes and I didn't have a senior person to help me. So I had to babysit them all. In another end, there was another project manager, with a group of elite and senior people. I really wanted to get a couple from there but I've been dealt this hand.
By some freak miracle we managed to meet the dealine of delivering a service, while the other team with those really good people delivered late. When the post-mortem of each project came, it was discovered..
..that it wasn't a miracle. The other team, their manager had worked them off so late into unreasonable hours and even into both weekend days. Whereas I, never had my team work a single day in overtime, except when they absented themselves. My rule was simple. 40 hrs in a week - no more, no less. It was realized that my team was very happy to work each day, motivated and with refreshed morale. The other team however, had their manager going home before their team does, and their mandated work schedule imbalancing their lives, in effect destroying their morale and motivation. I don't know where the core problem lies.. either I negotiated the deadlines very well or the other team kept on committing to an unreasonable deadline for the sake of having a project.
I really hate it when things like that happen.. finishing a project on time at the cost of your non-work aspects of life being totalled.
posted by Urban Warrior @ 9:14 AM
2 Comments:
right on! ;)
Wow, you're a pretty good boss... not running people down and just get the team to do the hours they need. Fantastic! :D
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