Pros
People who really care about what they do
Cons
The organization doesn’t know how to grow. Lots of nice sounding talking points that don’t map back to actions and behavior. No change management from leadership. Reason given for most recent layoffs was to remove bureaucracy and to stop doing things that is no longer part of the focus. Yet leadership still pushes for same deadlines, while adding ambiguous asks to the scope and never solves for challenges that they create. Some of the teams who were key to resolving challenges and providing clarity on what needs to happen to achieve X were let go. So the result is constant chaos, mediocre outcomes that are packaged as wins. Nobody feels empowered to push back on poor leadership decisions or report bad news. People’s health are impacted by the stress and exhaustion, some have been hospitalized and come back to the same working conditions.