[HN Gopher] Bezos on setting high standards and clear expectations
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       Bezos on setting high standards and clear expectations
        
       Author : sherilm
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2022-05-07 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | galoisscobi wrote:
       | Leaders have relentlessly high standards. Of themselves? No, of
       | ICs. I have heard too many horror stories from friends at Amazon
       | and how so many deadlines were made up, pushing engineers to burn
       | out, engineers cutting corners to ship stuff and managers getting
       | praise for "driving results".
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       | I think high standards should go both ways and engineers should
       | have mechanisms to hold their management chain accountable in
       | substantial ways.
        
         | sherilm wrote:
         | Agreed. It cuts both ways. Any idea even with positive
         | intentions can be abused when taken to the extremes. That's
         | what typically happens when the means becomes the end itself.
        
       | jarl-ragnar wrote:
       | I'd encourage anyone who sets high standards for themselves and
       | others to listen to this from Jonny Wilkinson
       | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-high-performance-p...
        
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