Comments on: When Being Right is Wrong http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anh Tuan Nguyen http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html/comment-page-1#comment-471 Anh Tuan Nguyen Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:46:43 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html#comment-471 <p>Hi Tim,<br /> The problem you mentioned could have been caused by a wrong business system.An unclear KPI system is a bad promise for the employee efforts. No-one wants to do more for the better company if they have nothing. <br /> And It will be worse when a passion employee know he could do better than his manager. <br /> </p> Hi Tim,
The problem you mentioned could have been caused by a wrong business system.An unclear KPI system is a bad promise for the employee efforts. No-one wants to do more for the better company if they have nothing.
And It will be worse when a passion employee know he could do better than his manager.

]]> By: Alexander Muse http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html/comment-page-1#comment-470 Alexander Muse Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:37:17 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html#comment-470 <p>Ironically I wrote about this idea in a different context a couple of weeks ago:</p> <p><a href="http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/07/17/the-choice-being-right-or-getting-what-you-want/" rel="nofollow">http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/07/17/the-choice-being-right-or-getting-what-you-want/</a></p> Ironically I wrote about this idea in a different context a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/07/17/the-choice-being-right-or-getting-what-you-want/

]]> By: Anonymous http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html/comment-page-1#comment-469 Anonymous Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:08:05 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2008/07/when-being-righ.html#comment-469 <p>A very similar thing happened to me in my last job. I was not in the IT department, but with my strong technology background I could see many problems with how things were run there. I spoke up to my boss about it to warn him about the risk of data loss and he essentially told me to mind my own business. Needless to say there was an event where a bunch of colleagues and I (including the president of the company) lost all their archived emails, and another in which the web server crashed and data was lost. The IT director was eventually fired but not after significant asset loss for the company.</p> A very similar thing happened to me in my last job. I was not in the IT department, but with my strong technology background I could see many problems with how things were run there. I spoke up to my boss about it to warn him about the risk of data loss and he essentially told me to mind my own business. Needless to say there was an event where a bunch of colleagues and I (including the president of the company) lost all their archived emails, and another in which the web server crashed and data was lost. The IT director was eventually fired but not after significant asset loss for the company.

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