Re:How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington
by erikpukinskis on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:30PM
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> Friend - 'Engineering' is not 'the facts', or not usually.
Not sure why you're referencing engineering? I didn't say anything about that. Not all startup employees are engineers.
> Customers, business opportunities, markets, investors
Customer support is going to have more facts about customers, investors are going to have more facts about investment terms and opportunities, marketing team is going to have more facts about markets, biz dev is going to have more facts about business relationships.
Management is not going to have more facts in any area than anyone really. Their job isn't to understand what's happening in detail, it's to maintain the structure of communication which allows different parts of the company to make good decisions.
If management starts thinking they know more than their employee on a topic, something has gone terribly wrong. They hired someone who doesn't know what they are doing, or they are preventing information from flowing to where it is needed, or they are just being hubristic.
Not sure why you're referencing engineering? I didn't say anything about that. Not all startup employees are engineers.
> Customers, business opportunities, markets, investors
Customer support is going to have more facts about customers, investors are going to have more facts about investment terms and opportunities, marketing team is going to have more facts about markets, biz dev is going to have more facts about business relationships.
Management is not going to have more facts in any area than anyone really. Their job isn't to understand what's happening in detail, it's to maintain the structure of communication which allows different parts of the company to make good decisions.
If management starts thinking they know more than their employee on a topic, something has gone terribly wrong. They hired someone who doesn't know what they are doing, or they are preventing information from flowing to where it is needed, or they are just being hubristic.