| ▲ | jmyeet a day ago | |
If you happen to work at a company of even a moderate size, but particularlly a large company, here's some free advice. Never point out the problems. There is literally no upside to doing this and plenty of downside. You will be labelled "Mr/Ms Negative". When you are inevitably proven right, you won't be thanked or heeded on future predictions. Instead you will be get feedback and comments about "not being a team player". This is doubly true if it's in the context of a meeting. What many don't realize is that meetings aren't for feedback or criticism or for changing course. All of those decisions have already happened. The meeting is just there to make official what's already been decided. If you truly want to influence the outcome, you do it 1:1 and outside meetings. And you create a paper trial so you're not the one left standing then the music stops. The people who say "shooting down ideas is not a skill" are wrong but it doesn't matter because they somehow rise to positions of leadership anyway and create these toxic environments where the only two outcomes are that they were right or you failed. | ||
| ▲ | zephen 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
From personal experience, especially don't point out that you foresaw the problem and warned against the path in a putative "lessons learned" meeting, lest ye be admonished that the true meaning of "disagree and commit" includes "and forget this conversation ever happened," even though the singular point you were trying to make at the "lessons learned" meeting was about how paying attention to concerns might actually be useful in future projects. | ||