[HN Gopher] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: "I discourage 1-on-1s"
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: "I discourage 1-on-1s"
Author : djhope99
Score : 21 points
Date : 2024-06-02 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| djhope99 wrote:
| "I don't do 1-on-1s, and almost everything I say, I say to
| everybody all the time. I don't really believe there's any
| information that I operate on that only one or two people should
| hear about... I believe that when you give everybody equal access
| to information, that empowers people. And so that's number one...
| Number two, if the CEO's direct staff is 60 people, the number of
| layers you've removed in a company is probably something like
| seven."
| starky wrote:
| I think this statement is really missing the point of 1-on-1's.
| They should be time set aside for the employee to talk about
| whatever is on their mind. It is ideally an opportunity for
| them to bring up any issues or concerns they might be having
| but is either unsuitable to or they are uncomfortable bringing
| it up with the larger group. Often the response is indeed,
| "Thanks for letting me know, I'll communicate that to the
| team." but it would have never been brought up if that time
| wasn't set aside to chat.
|
| Sure, when you are directly reporting into the CEO you are
| probably in a position where you are expected to lead it out
| yourself unless it affects the entire company strategy, so it
| is less useful, but if you are working with ICs then they are
| still very useful.
| DHPersonal wrote:
| The link seems to address that concern. It reads to me as if
| the view is that if the concern can't be shared with the
| group then it needn't be shared at all. Discussing it in the
| group benefits everyone because everyone can hear the concern
| and the response to it.
| lupire wrote:
| Which is an extremely naive view. Some concerns are
| sensitive.
| viraptor wrote:
| There definitely are concerns which shouldn't / don't need
| to be shared widely, when they're about specific people or
| about interpersonal issues. There's also potentially lots
| of stuff that should be communicated to the team, but they
| don't need to know the details of the issues. You
| definitely don't want to start a "John is avoiding work
| recently" conversation in a group, exactly because everyone
| can hear it and respond to it. Maybe the manager needs to
| have a private chat with him, or maybe the manager already
| knows that John had a death in the family that affects him.
| Not everything needs to have more people involved.
| NotGMan wrote:
| >> if the CEO's direct staff is 60 people, the number of layers
| you've removed in a company is probably something like seven."
|
| This is a great insight since so much gets lost in the management
| layer which causes frustration for devs while the CEO doesn't
| have a clue what's actually going on in the trenches.
| lupire wrote:
| But doesn't also much get lost when the manager can't keep up
| with 60 reports?
|
| Mathematics teaches us that the distance in a tree, from root
| to leaf, where each node is a linked list, is minimized when
| the branching factor is e, the base of the natural logarithm.
| For example, e is the most efficient base for writing integers.
|
| Management isn't quite the same, but branch size is are
| relevant.
|
| Management isn't
| viraptor wrote:
| Have you got a source for e as the optimal branching factor?
| (On average it feels plausible, but haven't seen a
| confirmation) But I don't get the idea about writing numbers
| in base e - by definition integers in base e are the least
| efficient, because they'd be infinite.
| gravescale wrote:
| It's called radix economy:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
|
| A non-integral number like _e_ is obviously of limited
| utility in physical systems because having _e_ adders in
| your ALU doesn 't make much sense.
|
| 3 is closer then 2 to _e_ , which also why ternary
| arithmetic was attempted for a while, but the massive
| advantage of binary in terms of implementation (much easier
| and far lower power to have a transistor slam a voltage
| high or low than keep it somewhere in the middle) won in
| the end.
| seatac76 wrote:
| It probably makes sense for a CEO who is direction setting and
| probably has other defined methods of feedback collections.
|
| For normals ICs 1:1s are crucial for career development. You
| absolutely need a space to talk candidly with your manager.
| lupire wrote:
| Since he is a founder and CEO, I'm not sure his opinion on 1:1
| meetings is relevant. He's not a people manager.
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