Out Of Scope - #9

Bad leaders

Hi ya’ll!

Finally ran my marathon today (with my mom!) and the first 3/4 were going great. At mile 19 I started to really hit “the wall” and the last 7 miles were absolutely terrible. But we finished at 4:05 and I am so sore afterwards I think I might be retiring from marathons at this point.

Emily Kager @EmilyKager

Someone: woah did you hear Phidippides ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens and then dropped dead? Someone else: sick we should charge people hundreds of dollars to see if they can do it and survive

Bad Leaders

Obviously the huge buzz this week was a certain purchase of a certain company. In totally unrelated thoughts:

Emily Kager @EmilyKager

Bad leadership can ruin a good thing so quickly

So what makes a bad leader in my mind? Just a few thoughts.

• Their teams don't feel valued or appreciated

• They don't listen to experts within their teams

• They take credit for others' successes but put failures on singular people

• They can't communicate a vision or inspire

• They don't reward fairly

• They don't treat their employees like full humans

• They hand down deadlines they expect to be met without question or input

• They don't invest in under-resourced teams or tools that would make teams' lives easier

• They expect compliance and create environments of fear

• They can't take criticism or adjust

And lastly, they might single out employees to criticize to their mob of millions of followers.

ICMYI

So if I make my coffee at home how long will it take me to buy a social media company?

Dividend Hero☀️ @HeroDividend

Elon Musk was able to buy Twitter because he doesn’t spend $5 on coffee everyday

I had to google “former” and “latter” to make sure I was setting this up correctly, but yes I said what I said.

Emily Kager @EmilyKager

Well you don’t want to whore yourself out and throw morals completely out the window… so maybe try the former?

megan @chismosavirus

i wanna make more money but i'm not going back to school like.... it's either play with my p***y on camera or learn to code oh my god

Yes, I think that is what they think. And any mention of “left” or “right” in comments or code will be completely misinterpreted. I can’t wait.

Jon Christian @Jon_Christian

they think they're gonna open up the code and it's gonna be like "if tweet = conservative then engage_stifle"

That’s it for this week folks! Have a great week and see ya next Sunday.