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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by runevault on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:58AM (#16484419)
Once a team is settled in this can be hard to measure. For me personally I was able to show mine by changing teams and helping drastically inflate overall team velocity, not just by the number of points I added, but how much more productive everyone else became. It is hard to do on an established team where you're already part of it, though, and that's a problem I don't know how to solve.
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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by icebraining on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:54PM (#16485613)
Go on vacation for a decent period of time? In finance, key employees have mandatory two-week leaves, which serve to detect embezzlement. Here we could have the same, but to detect positive influences.
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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by runevault on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:57PM (#16487473)
That's an interesting point. Once you've been with my current employer long enough, you actually get a 1 month sabbatical which may work for that.
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