Many companies spend an awful amount of resources and focus on trying to motivate their employees. This is of course I theory a great thing which should benefit employees. What are we doing which demotivate people?
I remember reading about The Change Function, which was a term I first read in the book with that as the title by Pip Coburn. I was recently reminded about this as there was a discussion at work about how NodeJS was slipping in unnoticed, while things such as Grails or Scala was having a more difficult time.
To me a vision is not a list of items to do. It is not bullet points on a slide. Nor is it a graph which points upwards. It is not numbers added together to make an even larger number. A series of the above things is definitely not a vision.
Countless times throughout my career I have heard (and I think I’ve said it too): “you must pick you battles”. I have always struggled to believe this. Why should you not make the case for what you believe?
Having read recent articles about members of our community and how they have burned out [Burnout, Reset], I decided it was time I told mine. I learned my most valuable work related lesson the hard way.
