Growing with your company's complexity.
You also don’t want to change processes too quickly. You’re trying to achieve the tricky balance of having a process in place for long enough to give it a real shot but not so long that bad processes will stick around and damage team productivity.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
An employee who loves programming for Android can simply acquire more and more Android-related ownership and decision-making abilities. Other employees may choose to grow to manage Android projects, or to become people managers. Buffer employees never have to choose between stagnation and leading people—they can choose to go deeper into their area
... See morePaul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
If you’re taking a short-term look at career growth, then optimizing for your current organization’s pathologies in evaluating impact is the optimal path: go forth and preen gloriously. However, if you’re thinking about developing yourself to succeed as your current role grows in complexity or across multiple organizations, then it’s far more impor... See more