I don’t think I can improve on this post and its message; so I am posting it here in its entirety with links to it.
This is from a daring person who is taking control of a process usually much out of your control (finding a job). She is, at least from what I gather from her approach and her website, pretty much the prototype for hiring. She? I have lost my manners; it’s Susan. And Susan says:
One person in charge at a time
k at a company with more than two people, you’ve likely had a project that was SNOWED.
Jeremiah Owyang brought the term up in reference to websites that look and run like mush.
SNOWED – Stakeholders’ Needs Overwhelm Web Experience Design. Basically
a case of too many cooks. And you see it all over the web. And in print
and in events and in customer service and in … .
There’s a
severe lack of amazing to be found in what marketing produces and some
of it is related to Jeremiah’s solution to the website issue.
The
way I see it, if you want to get something done, if you want it to be
amazing when it is done, you’ll only get there by having one person in
charge at a time. One person whose job it is provide the vision and
watch the critical path. One person who understands the true goal and
can say no. One person who accepts the responsibility for blame or
credit.
Sounds like leadership, huh?
Unfortunately,
companies end up with one of two scenarios instead. Either projects are
run by committee and no one steps up to lead and nothing gets done. Or
someone is designated the leader and undermined at every step by the
way by people who won’t let them be in charge and nothing amazing
happens.
Do you want amazing? Put one person in charge. Be
willing to be the person in charge. Take charge, take responsibility,
take the blame, share the credit.
*As seen on Susan’s website/blog: http://main.susanhiresaboss.com/
This is the classic scenario at most companies; including ours. Plowing the SNOW out of the system is the way forward—just hope you find enough people to do something amazing AND you get out of the way. Entrepreneurs need especially take note.
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