27 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said the Best Employees Focus on Content, Not Process

Re:27 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said the Best Employees Focus on... by wiseowise on Monday January 01, 2024 @11:14AM (#38832867)

> The other type is someone who is self-less, and just does the work regardless of self-interest or agenda. They will do both prestigious work, and will also do thankless work, as long as it contributes to the success of the project. They will stay late, fix up other's mistakes, etc, without complaints or expectation that others do the same.

Been there, done that, it's a career dead-end.

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Re:27 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said the Best Employees Focus on... by oceanplexian on Monday January 01, 2024 @11:44AM (#38833100)

I used to be that person, but the problem is that you’re creating an incentive structure that doesn’t enable the management chain to identify and correct problems. A company should not be standing on the shoulders of a single engineer doing thankless work to prevent catastrophe.

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